thermostat unavailable, eq3btsmart

[kimdo8]

The problem

new HA installation,
eq3 thermostats are visible via bluetoothctl but keep unavailable
see attached logfile

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

8.5, 64bit

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

none

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

eq3btsmart

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/eq3btsmart/

Diagnostics information

No response

Example YAML snippet

climate:
  - platform: eq3btsmart
    devices:
      roomnumber:
        mac: "00:1A:22:11:50:48"

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

2022-09-11 22:54:14.960 WARNING (SyncWorker_2) [homeassistant.helpers.frame] Detected integration that attempted to call BleakClient with an address instead of a BLEDevice. Please report issue for eq3btsmart using this method at homeassistant/components/eq3btsmart/climate.py, line 189: self._thermostat.update()
2022-09-11 22:54:24.687 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.climate] Setup of climate platform eq3btsmart is taking over 10 seconds.
2022-09-11 22:55:07.316 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Waiting on integrations to complete setup: climate.eq3btsmart
2022-09-11 22:55:56.977 WARNING (SyncWorker_2) [homeassistant.components.eq3btsmart.climate] Updating the state failed: Exception on write using bleak
2022-09-11 22:56:07.416 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.bootstrap] Waiting on integrations to complete setup: climate.eq3btsmart

Additional information

installed on raspberry 4, 4GB

[probot-home-assistant]

eq3btsmart documentation
eq3btsmart source
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[probot-home-assistant]

Hey there @rytilahti, mind taking a look at this issue as it has been labeled with an integration (eq3btsmart) you are listed as a code owner for? Thanks!
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[rytilahti]

Duplicate of #76040