EE Gateway is live in the Umbrel app store.
One click to install. Your Bluetooth radio starts forwarding BLE packets.
How it works:
- Your Umbrel scans for nearby BLE devices on supported BLE networks.
- 1 sat per unique device identifier (ephemeral IDs) per UTC day, awarded to the first gateway to forward it.
- Settlement daily to your Lightning address.
What you should know:
- EE holds pending sats custodially until daily settlement clears the 1k sats threshold. After settlement, the sats land at your Lightning address.
- Worker is GPL-3.0, multi-arch
The ask: if you've got an Umbrel,**** install EE Gateway and run it a few days. I'm looking for the first operators particularly near transport and logistics corridors, and for feedback to understand the common user challenges today.
Feel free to reach out directly: john@encryptedenergy.com
App store: https://apps.umbrel.com/app/ee-gateway
What is the exactly? What risks do we take on doin this?
By making a gateway from your home server, you're helping contribute to Bluetooth-based connectivity networks. Think of it like a mini cell tower from your server.
The primary risk is investing in new Pi's / Umbrel servers and longer range antenna attachments without necessarily having a lot of participating network devices within range of your server.
I don't get it. Bluetooth-based connectivity networks? That's too vague. What's it used for?
The primary users of BLE networks today are logistics providers. For example, you can search the news for 'bluetooth' and 'smart label', and you'll see a dozen or more press releases in recent months.
Likewise for owners of high value assets who are struggling to recover them in scenarios where they go missing - BLE provides a much needed low power connectivity protocol, and BLE devices can now connect back to the internet via your Umbrel server/gateway.
Looking at the site I don’t think having this on my node will be much help to anything
I'm interested. I'll check it out.
Thanks! Let me know if you have any trouble getting started.