Whitelist not persisted?

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@stan23

Is that expected? Is there a way to persist the whitelist? Can it be hard-coded?

I had similar questions a while back

Query about white-list/black-list - specifically how to remove devices from the lists, or to fully clear the lists

Hi all, Having set up my BLE gateway on an ESP32, everything is working as expected apart from the white-list or black-list, when I want to remove devices from them or clear them fully. The last test I have done was (fully ignoring retaining messages for the time being, until I figure this out Add one device to the white-list, so as to only get messages from it send: {"white-list":["XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX"]} Great, only device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX gets reported, while the monitoring …

and white/black-lists cannot be hard coded.

@stan23

I was able to set a whitelist like this, with the retain flag enabled:

sendTo ('mqtt.0', 
        'sendMessage2Client', {
            topic: 'ble-scanner/OpenMQTTGateway/commands/MQTTtoBT/config', 
            message: '{"white-list":["C5:68:8A:91:0A:A7","D6:2F:D0:06:17:23","D4:69:22:C5:82:C0","CF:ED:96:AA:5F:50"]}'}
        );

Not knowing much about ioBroker, where in your MQTT message is the retain flag set to true though? If the white-list is sent with the retain flag set to true the MQTT broker should send the white-list again after every restart of the ESP32.

If you connect to your MQTT broker with an app like MQTT.fx or MQTT Explorer, does the white-list message show up as retained there when you subsribe to your OpenMQTTGateway?

I actually resend different white-lists, depending on other variables like presence and security state, via OpenHAB, by monitoring for the LWT state of OMG, which sends an “online” after every restart (Actually also a retained message, along with another one containing the version number - both great for checking to see if retained messages correctly show up for you). I’m sure this would also be possible with ioBroker, but a correctly set retain=true with your white-list message should do the trick for you.

Hope this helps.