NEFF Meat Probe (BLE) Home Assistant Integration

The NEFF Meat Probe (BLE) integration allows Home Assistant to monitor the NEFF Z1365WX0 wireless meat probe by passively listening to Bluetooth broadcasts. The author reports that the data format was determined through reverse engineering, enabling temperature tracking without requiring Home Connect, cloud accounts, or device pairing. The integration provides sensors for four individual measuring points, an average temperature, ambient oven temperature, and battery levels. The README documents that the probe and its charging station continue to function as intended alongside this integration. Development involved iterative analysis of packet data, including handling values exceeding 100 °C, which were initially rejected by the decoder. The project maintains debug logging for rejected packets to facilitate ongoing analysis of unseen formats. The author credits Claude Opus 5.5 as a co-author for contributions to the codebase and documentation. Users must ensure Bluetooth connectivity near the oven, either via a local adapter or an ESPHome Bluetooth proxy. Further details on the protocol are available at docs/protocol.md.

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