#bluetooth-archived

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fringe field
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No

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Bluetoothd runs on the host and is accessed over the socket

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If you ls -lart that folder on host and container do you get same output? (Socket should have same date etc)

random raven
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No the socket is missing of course :/

fringe field
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I share /var/run/dbus to /var/run/dbus is one thing

random raven
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So change to /var/run/dbus:/var/run/dbus?

fringe field
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Yeah

random raven
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Still not passing through

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Weird

fringe field
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Ok stepping back

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Container Is the standard one HA provides?

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What is host os?

random raven
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Ubuntu

fringe field
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And it’s stock docker ? Not podman or crio or kubernetes

random raven
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Portainer but stock docker

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Thru apt though not the other thing

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Snap

fringe field
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Good

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Is Ubuntu bare metal?

random raven
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No it's a build for the z83-4 with some monkeying with gnome so any desk would work

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Chinese low power computer

fringe field
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Is the socket file there on the host but missing in the container?

random raven
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Yeah

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Assuming system_bus_socket is the file

fringe field
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Yeah

random raven
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With both mappings it wouldn't pass through though

fringe field
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And you are using bind mounts?

random raven
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-volumes in compose with no flags so I don't think so?

fringe field
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Can you show me your compose file

random raven
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homeassistant:
container_name: homeassistant
image: "ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable"
volumes:
- /home/Dev/Docker/homeassistant:/config
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
- /home/Dev/Docker/SWAG:/ssl/:ro
- /var/run/dbus:/var/run/dbus:ro
restart: unless-stopped
privileged: true
network_mode: "host"
ports:

fringe field
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And the other bind mounts work?

random raven
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They seem to?

fringe field
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And do you apply changes with docker-compose or portainer?

random raven
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Portainer, maybe I need to re compose the whole thing

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It's been a while since I've had to make container changes

fringe field
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If you “docker inspect” the container can you see the dbus mount with the ones that are working

random raven
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No

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Must not be composing right doy. I'll have to try it again in the morning

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Thanks!

shrewd dragon
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Hey, I got a question....
I installed Home Assistant OS in Proxmox and everything ist working fine so far. I want to add a ThermoPro TP357 and have already passed through my USB dongle from Ugreen to the VM. When is type bluetoothctl list in the Home Assistant terminal I get the MAC of my USB Dongle. Where to go from here? How can I add and read the TP357 sensor?
There seems to be an Integration built in to Home Assistant for ThermoPro devices but it only says that no devices are on the network.
Any help will be greatly appreciated 👍

fringe field
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Do you see a Bluetooth integration in your HA?

shrewd dragon
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Yes, but it seems to be my Bluetooth Dongle
I can select "use passive scanning"
It is also the one coming up under bluetoothctl

fringe field
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That’s expected

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I just wanted to check HA could see your dongle

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You probably want to leave it on the default settings (more devices found with default)

shrewd dragon
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Okay, so no passive scanning xD

fringe field
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So it should just be detected AIUI

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So if it’s not then it’s probably either range, interference or dongle compatibility

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Is it a dongle from the high performance list in the docs?

shrewd dragon
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The dongle is from the supported tab, not high speed
But supported
It's a UGREEN CM390

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What do you mean with AIUI?

fringe field
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As I understand it

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Do you know if it uses a Realtek chipset?

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Hmm looks like it is

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Unfortunate

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The Realtek ones are very crashy

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They just stop processing advertisements randomly

shrewd dragon
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Hm ok, that's very unfortunate...

fringe field
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HA has a auto recovery thing which should restart it automatically

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Possible the extra vm layer is making that not work?

shrewd dragon
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So you don't think it's a configuration issue? Just a bad dongle

fringe field
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(It works by triggering a usb reset)

shrewd dragon
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I was thinking about that too, but then it probably wouldn't show up in bluetoothctl

fringe field
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Oh no it would

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I used to have a realtek dongle

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It looked like it was working

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But only some of my devices were visible

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Weirdly it could see my tv and my neighbours watch but nothing else

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Unplugging it and plugging it back in can help on bare metal

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But that might upset the passthrough

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Anyway, the dongle might not be the /only/ problem but it’s almost certainly /a/ problem

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If you send the diagnostic download for the Bluetooth integration I can see if anything pops out

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Or you can turn on debugging for it and see if it sees any events

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Or you can do “scan on” inside Bluetoothctl and see if it sees anything

shrewd dragon
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Yea I try that out

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Thank you very much so far

fringe field
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When I do “scan on” I get a stream of data, it’s quite fast. Though I have a lot of Bluetooth stuff (laptop, phone, tablet, headphones, mouse, etc). But with a Realtek I’d see a couple of things and then it would just stop dead.

shrewd dragon
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I will try to find something when I get home and then I will come back to you
Thank you very much 👍

simple meteor
fringe field
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So in general it’s not the volume of sensors you plan to use it’s the volume of sensors that there are. The proxy has to process them all even if they turn out to be uninteresting.

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And WiFi is going to cost you a fair bit of Bluetooth ability because the radio is shared

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(I have WiFi proxies, but they are dedicated)

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(The range is also like maybe 1 room without an antenna)

simple meteor
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That makes sense, thanks. I should be getting the board tomorrow, and see if I first can get it to work (I don't know if the two would even compile) , and then if it does, how well it works as a BT proxy.

oblique oak
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We are working on coalescing the bluetooth advertisements into a single api message for esphome since they are read 16 at a time. It should reduce the time the wifi being used to send data. It might be a few weeks/months before we get it implemented.

tender solar
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Hi folks, tried adding bluetooth dongle today to me HASS instance and while debug logs dont show any errors, I am unable to add m Switchbot devices. Any suggestions?

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Looks like I cannot share the Debug log text file

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Using UGreen 5.0 dongle

fringe field
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That doesn't look like its on the list of supported devices, or the list of barely supported devices. do you know what kind of chip it has? has it worked with any linux?

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looks like RTL8761BUV maybe?

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realtek devices are prone to crashing, so that might be why things aren't working for you

simple acorn
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Shelly plus plug S arriving today. Can we use as BT proxy out of the box? (Esp32 inside)

fringe field
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yes but no

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iirc it doesn't support 2-way on the Shelly firmware

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only broadcasts

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also depends on how old the stock is - old fimware wont be enough

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i defer to everyone else on whether there are any shelly esp-32 products that havent had the firmware update

simple meteor
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I have a Shelly and the BT proxy option is enabled not sure if it's actually being used though but it is enabled.

simple acorn
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please remind me what BT strategy we need: active or passive. The description is not very helpful (to me), in both setting is will request data of devices bearby..?

fringe field
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so there are 4 common ways to get data out of your bluetooth devices

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"passive scanning" involves no connection to devices. its just sniffing "advertisement" frames that are in range

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"active scanning" is basically the same, but HA also broadcasts a beacon that announces its listening. this is not the same as making a bluetooth connection.

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some devices won't send advertisements without this beacon

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the 3rd option is confusing because its also called active - "active connection" means actually doing a handshake, enumerating values on teh device and polling them once every X seconds. this has less range than the previous 2.

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and because it involves a "proper" connection it is far heavier on your battery

simple meteor
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I have everything active and passive (7 BT proxies), it works for me. It may drain devices battery faster

simple acorn
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the settings only offer 2 modes (well, 3, if you include 'off'...)

fringe field
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yeah

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so i wanted to explain a bit more because people confuse active scanning and active connections

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passive scanning involves an experimental bluez feature

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(when using bluetooth dongle)

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i use active

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i've not had any problem with battery life

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some devices won't work with passive at all (i think inkbird don't)

simple acorn
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my usecase: usb dongle (one of the fast types), several battery powered hum/temp devices, and 2 CO sensors, that are most critical. guess I would need to try active first, and see what gives

fringe field
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basically, passive mode risks making things not work for a theoretical but completely unproven battery improvement

simple acorn
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we dont have a way/dashboard to tell which device connects to which BT proxy yet dont we?

fringe field
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not afaik

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i remember you have some HomeKit BLE devices, they won't work with the shelly FWIW

simple acorn
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(why is that?) I do have the BT dongle, and some true (olimex/m5stack) BT proxies

fringe field
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because shelly supports active and passive scanning only, not active connections

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as in, it can only listen not transmit

simple acorn
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I see.. will try to bring the other devices closer in that case

fringe field
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HomeKit does a cryptographic handshake that requires 2-way communication at startup, when it has a key it can get away with just listening.

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You might find it does the handshake via a supported device, but then processes the advertisements via the shelly or something funky like that

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but not ideal if the other proxies are on the edge of range

simple acorn
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yes, I remember we tried to change all of that, reducing startup errors

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can confirm btw that the one next to the BT dongle has -37dBm, the other more distant has -84.... and its practically next to this new Shelly..proving they're not talking to each other indeed

oblique oak
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If aiohomekit doesn't already accept advertisements from non-connectables when there are no connectables in range we could probably make that work

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it would only work for sensors though

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since everything else needs an active connection to control it

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but I'm not sure its a good idea because you would have to bring a connectable in range every time the counter rolled over

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and we already always dispatch to aiohomekit if there is any connectable in range of the device

simple acorn
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moved the m5stack to the same room as the more distant CO sensor, and (after a manual reload of the Homekit accessory) it indeed has a better dBm now. Is it correct I had to manually reload the accessory? Also, do we need some extra settings in the esphome config regarding these active/passive connections?

oblique oak
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you shouldn't have to manually reload but it will find it a lot faster if you do

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also unrelated but fast protobuf should not be needed after 2023.4.5 as the lib should already come with the binaries

median vigil
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Is bluetooth speaker/mics supported in HASS yet?

oblique oak
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nope. It might be something HAOS adds in the future but likely not core

near igloo
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Hi, I have a few philips hue Smart plug, that can be controlled from the phone app with bluetooth. How can one add them through bluetooth to a rasberry pi 4 running latest Homeassistant operating system ? (I don't have any additional bridge or other, I would like to connect through bluetooth to the plugs only). (Feel free to direct me to a better place to ask this questions if not here)

sharp radish
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I'm having an issue with bluetooth proxy and and one of my Level locks. I have two Level locks and a ESP32 proxy next to each one (1m away). One works great. When I try to unlock for example, The lock will actually unlock, the status in HA changes to "Unlocking..." but then it never updates to unlocked. After that point, the status will never update in HA and the lock is inoperable from HA. Here's what I see in the logs: https://hastebin.com/share/povubesawe.csharp That last error chunk just keeps repeating over and over

fringe field
simple meteor
# simple meteor Hi, do you think an ESP32 LILYGO TTGO T-Display (http://www.lilygo.cn/prod_view....

Hi, I wanted to follow up on this.....so far is not working but wondering if it just requires some tweaking or if it will never work. The Lilygo TTGO display is an ESP32 variant. I installed BT proxy software on it, and it works well as a BT proxy. However, the moment I put even minimal display features on it, ie this https://esphome.io/components/display/st7789v.html, it compiles and flashes perfectly fine but it does not connect to Wifi with an error message of something about WiFi Improv Serial not available. So, it works fine as a display only, and a BT proxy only, but getting it to both, does not seem to work. I mean, even if its just says "Power On" does not even work, let alone reading a sensor from HA. So, is the problem that it does not want to share the WiFi?

sharp radish
marsh tapir
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When I run docker compose exec homeassistant bluetoothctl list it shows my bluetooth controller but, homeassistant still doesn't recognize it? Anyone know what the problem is?

fringe field
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So you don’t have an integration for bluetooth showing up? And it’s not in the ignored list?

simple acorn
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It’s only 1.5 m away and showing -78dBm…

simple meteor
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I have a switchbot in my shed controlling a device there. it's about 60 to 80 ft from the nearest BT Proxy so it was always a bit flaky in terms of operation because of the poor signal quality. But then I added a BT proxy in the shed, and Boom! that switchbot fires immediately now, everytime. Nice!
https://ibb.co/NFfjbZ9

fringe field
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Nice

shadow bison
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Hey folks. I have a SwitchBot Blind Tilt that only responds to HA for a few seconds, seems to go to "sleep", and won't work again until I restart the bluetooth integration and then it works fine for about 10-20 seconds. Anywhere I could look to see what's happening or is there a bluetooth setting I could change?

marsh tapir
fringe field
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And it’s not in the ignored integrations list?

marsh tapir
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Yeah there it is 🤦‍♂️

sharp radish
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I keep getting this error in my HA logs: Failed to connect: No backend with an available connection slot that can reach address E0:4E:28:AA:2F:23 was found: The proxy/adapter is out of connection slots; Add additional proxies near this device but the thing is.... I only have 1 BT device (a lock).

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Is there a failure where a slot gets allocated and then never closed?

fringe field
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It means no connection slots in range

sharp radish
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this is after a fresh restart of HA and the proxy

fringe field
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So the connection is failing (possibly range) and there are no other slots to try from

sharp radish
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I see, thanks. it's weird because the proxy is only 3ft from the lock

fringe field
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Does your bt proxy have an external antennae?

sharp radish
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no, it's just an ESP32 board (ESP-WROOM-32)

fringe field
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Depending on the device there might be a signal strength sensor. It’s probably disabled by default. If you turn it on on the device page and then post a picture of the graph in a bit

sharp radish
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thanks will do

sharp radish
fringe field
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(BLE and WiFi have to share a radio, and i mean "one at a time" sharing, ethernet avoids that)

sharp radish
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if I turn on the "increase distance" mode of the lock, I am sitting at a signal strength of about -79 dBm... do you think thats "reliable"?

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I can't use ethernet in the current location, but i think i might try an ESP-WROOM-32U with an antenna.

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I also can't seem to find an ESP32 board that has both ethernet and external antenna... do you have a recommendation?

fringe field
sharp radish
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Mostly I am biding my time waiting for Level to activate the Thread radio. I have many thread routers

fringe field
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ah then its a whole different set of problems to work through 😆

west sorrel
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Is there a known issue with the Bluetooth scanner failing to restart on Raspberry Pi? Or is my Pi broken? I recently got a couple of switchbot items (one bot and one sensor) but they won't stay available in HA for more than a few hours. Restarting the Pi makes them work again.

fringe field
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Yeah

fringe field
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We’d probably suggest an external USB Bluetooth on an extension cable anyway (to minimise interference) and with an external antenna.

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You’ll probably find that the Broadcom and CSR ones in the last don’t need the recovery feature, although they should support it more than pi onboard does.

west sorrel
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The whole point of buying the Bluetooth kit was not to need another adaptor. 😂

west sorrel
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Seems to be some suggestion on the v10 notes that going back to v9.5 might help, so trying that...

rare fable
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I just plugged in a recommended ZEXMTE bluetooth adapter, but when I try to add the bluetooth integration it shows 0 adapters found any idea? Running HAOS inside a VM on an ESXi host and the USB device has been passed through

fringe field
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9 times out of 10 from that description it’s either (a) not supported by Linux or (b) it’s somehow marked as ignored in the integrations list

rare fable
clear stratus
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should i stay away from firmware updates for switchbot devices

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worried about compatibility w bluetooth

untold ermine
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I constantly get this error in my logs:

bleak.exc.BleakError: No backend with an available connection slot that can reach address None was found

Any idea what could be up?

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The BT integration seems to think it's working fine

fringe field
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Sometimes it’s a range issue, and the text is meant to guide you to build out more coverage

untold ermine
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The device being my BT dongle or the device the dongle is trying to communicate with?

fringe field
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Sometimes you have more devices than your setup can handle, and the text is meant to guide you to add more coverage. Crap Bluetooth dongles might only handle 1 or 2 devices at a time. “Good” is 5.

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Unfortunately the same error could crop up if your dongle has just crashed. As in that case you also don’t have an endpoint in range of your Bluetooth device

untold ermine
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I got the BT dongle that bdraco recommended and seems to use personally. Has an antenna and everything. It also complains about a BT device that's like 3 feet away and has line of sight

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I also have an extender

fringe field
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Well, that’s what the error is telling you. The connection failed, and there weren’t any other endpoints in range.

untold ermine
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This error is like constant btw. First occurred: April 23, 2023 at 7:46:42 PM (2505 occurrences)

fringe field
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Sometimes it’s not the performance of your dongle that’s the issue, it’s the performance of the sensor. Some locks default to a low power mode that only covers like 30cm

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Oh yeah, HAOS 10 might be a factor.

untold ermine
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No, this has been going on long before HAOS 10

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It's Valve Index base stations that it's trying to communicate with btw. I have an app on my phone which is able to also control them and it's pretty reliable

fringe field
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Shrug. Usually with Bluetooth I say “range”, the person I’m helping says no way, the person eventually moves the things next to each other and it starts working. But if you have already done that it might be worth raising a bug.

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How many devices have you got connected to Bluetooth?

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And is the dongle broadcom or CSR

untold ermine
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Not sure what you mean by connected, but really just my two basestations

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Otherwise I think I have the iBeacon integration enabled and maybe BT device tracker

fringe field
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Sorry RL. Some Bluetooth devices need to maintain a connection. Sucks for battery life. But that means they hold a connection slot locked permanently and some dongles only have 2 connection slots.

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Good device sends encrypted advertisements when something interesting happens. These are broadcasts to any device listening. These don’t require 2 way radio contact.

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Crap devices open a 2 way connection, hold it open and subscribe to GATT values they are interested in. These connections are stateful and consume resources - terrible for battery and block your dongle doing other stuff.

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So if you have lots of those devices or a few but a crap dongle you can end up with no connection slots even when everything is working as intended.

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IBeacon and device tracker should be driven off advertisements so probably not in anyway affected

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If your base stations have a signal strength sensor, turn it on. Even if the connection is solid (-70 should be fine), you might see gaps which could indicate the dongle crashing and recovering etc.

simple meteor
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Hi, anybody know if an ESP32-S3 board can be used as a BT proxy? thanks

untold ermine
untold ermine
sonic sorrel
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I'm trying to reverse engineer a ble connection - blinds that use smp pairing authentication.

I tried using Apple's PacketLogger tool, but I could only see the public keys for pairing and not the private keys. Any software that is recommended to try to get the smp keys?

fringe field
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do you know what type of SMP keys it uses?

sonic sorrel
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I think Long-Term Key/ Identity Resolving Key

rancid swan
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I am using some LD2410B bluetooth presence sensors, but they drop out after a while. The Hi-Link phone app still sees them, and a HA restart makes them appear again. How would I troubleshoot this?

shadow bison
next shale
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I recall this was the case before and wanted to confirm before digging ,is it still not possible to use a cheap Bluetooth speaker as media player with HA on Pi4?

rustic void
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cannot able to configure the Bluetooth properly I'm using Pi4 any one have any solution to fix the issue

devout hearth
solar perch
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has anyone successfully set up a Xiaomi LYWSD03MMC with BThome and a bindkey?

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i've populated the bindkey field, but i'm not getting prompted for a key when I connect it to HA

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the documentation is in no way clear how to do this

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Wow, ok so the key is not the EEP BindKey, it's the Mi Bind Key. And you have to tick the "Encrypted beacon" checkbox in the main config section.

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Clear as mud.

karmic coyote
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yo

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how can i connect my bluetooth ledvance lights\

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tranquil ermine
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What's the case about this whole Bluetooth bug with version 10.x? My Xiaomi temp sensor losing connection after some time? Can I provide some logs. Directly in settings logs there is nothing, it's simply stop to receiving data.

fringe field
tranquil ermine
fringe field
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All I know is on that ticket

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It seems like the team can’t reproduce it

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What Bluetooth adaptor do you use?

tranquil ermine
tranquil ermine
fringe field
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Are you able to try an external usb one? Ideally from the list of supported high performance devices on the site?

tranquil ermine
fringe field
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(It might help the team if someone can provide a clue like “this device works and this one doesn’t”)

tranquil ermine
tranquil ermine
fringe field
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Not afaik, just zigbee and thread

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Really any device you’ve got is worth testing but broadcom and CSR tend to work better, if you used a Realtek one they crash constantly anyway even without haos 10 so not a useful test

tranquil ermine
fringe field
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Yes high performance sounds impressive but the reality is there are a lot of Bluetooth dongles that are expensive trash

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And cheap ones that work fine

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If you read the page it will explain the testing methodology

tranquil ermine
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@fringe field

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Logger: homeassistant.config_entries
Source: config_entries.py:1242
First occurred: 00:15:48 (2 occurrences)
Last logged: 00:16:11

Config entry '00:15:83:40:93:F0' for bluetooth integration not ready yet: hci0 (00:15:83:40:93:F0): Failed to start Bluetooth: [org.bluez.Error.InProgress] Operation already in progress; Retrying in background

tranquil ermine
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I ordered a SABRENT BT-UB40 (CSR8510A10) , sounds useful to have a official tested adapter at least as backup. Thats's the only from the list what is still orderable.

karmic coyote
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hello when i use the bluetooth integration is says no adapters found

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karmic coyote
karmic coyote
clear stratus
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where are you getting your bluetooth from if you dont have an adapter

karmic coyote
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the ha is running on some laptop\

clear stratus
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more than likely the usb on the card in your computer wont work through virtualbox

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at any rate, you ahve to physically mount any adapters in virtualbox settings

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you can do it for usb device, i dont think you can for pcie devices on vbox

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makes me woner why i didnt pick mine from the high performance list when i did but, oh well...what can you do

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dont make my mistake lmao, there are cheap high performance ones

frail tangle
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Is there any way to connect bluetooth speakers to haos

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And play media on them via vlc just like a usb speaker

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The server im running haos has a bluetooth card

devout hearth
frail tangle
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oh

tawny kelp
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Hi - does anybody knows something about the new shelly ble button? I got battery only - nothing else - is an update planed or maybe my false? 🫣

tawny kelp
unborn trail
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Are there any Home Assistant bluetooth proxies that allow me to install the software on a Raspberry Pi 3-4 to increase the Bluetooth range like the ESP solution does?

fringe field
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Not really easily

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One thing that should work is usbip, which is a driver for making a remote usb device available locally

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But there’s no ui built around that, and you are on your own setting it up.

unborn trail
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Got it, thank you @fringe field. I'll look into that but I ended up buying 5x esp32-poes. That seems like the most integrated route

tranquil ermine
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@fringe field new adapter is working perfect

fringe field
tranquil ermine
harsh egret
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Do integrations have a specific log? I am trying to figure out why one of my integrations sensors have all become unavailable (Govee Bluetooth)? They are still reporting in the Govee App.

true holly
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@harsh egret - Been having issues w/my 4 Xiaomi Bluetooth Temp Sensors since 2923.5.0... Was hoping the 2023.5.1, maybe a little. Seems restart of HA fixes it for a few hours

harsh egret
forest quiver
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Hi y’all. I just added a Bluetooth esp32 Proxy. I have a Switchbot that I have integrated before. Is there a way to get it to communicate through the esp32 instead?

fringe field
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It will use it automatically if it’s got the best signal

hidden oasis
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Hello everyone. I would like to ask if there is a possibility to integrate Elgato Eve Energy plug to HA via Bluetooth. It's the old one . I just switched to android device and sold my Apple tv. Here the product
Elgato Eve Energy (x2 Set) - Sensore di Corrente ed Interruttore Wireless, Abilitato Apple HomeKit, Bluetooth Low Energy https://amzn.eu/d/6bmlfOT

Thank you so much for all your replies

fringe field
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Yes

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Well, if you are lucky

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My pre-thread one works fine but not everyone has good enough Bluetooth

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It should also work with esp32 Bluetooth proxies to get more range if needed

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If that doesn’t work and you could get temporary access to a iOS device, the eve extend also works. That’s how my smoke alarm is connected to HA.

fringe field
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We don’t have a list of well tested devices but ones that have Ethernet and external antennas are best - some of the smaller modules have really poor reception, and the radio is shared between WiFi and Bluetooth which can cause you to lose packets.

simple meteor
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Hi, does anyone know if the new Shelly BLU Button 1 also acts as an iBeacon?

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product says it "Uses BLE technology"

marsh quarry
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Is there any options for bluetooth proxy on 8266 or only ESP32?

simple meteor
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Does an 8266 even have Bluetooth?

fringe field
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No

fringe field
strange silo
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If I add a Bluetooth proxy, do I need to remove and rediscover devices or does it work like a mesh WiFi network with devices connecting to the strongest/nearest?

#

Any recommendations for an ethernet but non-PoE version from Olimex please? The ESP32-Gateway-EA?
Or stick with the ESP-PoE and use USB to power? (I don't want to use a PoE injector due to location of install)

fringe field
#

Sorry can't make hardware rec's. Sounds like it would work, but i haven't seen anyone talk about it before

oblique oak
#

You probably don't need the -IND but I use them in tougher climates where the -IND versions have shown to be more reliable

simple meteor
#

what kind of range do the ESP32-EVB-EA-IND have?

oblique oak
#

same as the POE unit

#

probably not exactly but functionally

foggy mango
#

Can I just use a esphome and make a Bluetooth proxy without having Bluetooth on the VM?

oblique oak
#

If it’s an esp32 yes

grave perch
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I feel as though this should be something I'm just overlooking in docs, but for the life of me, haven't been able to find the answer. If I have a HA install with no local BT adapter but a few Shelly devices acting as proxies, should this work with iBeacon tracker?

I do get data from my Aranet sensors via BLE. I don't seem to be getting anything from the BLE trackers. Not sure that I should; docs seem to point at Bluetooth being setup and working as a prereq.

At the same time, if that's a general prereq, I don't see how the Aranets would work either.

gaunt flume
#

esp32 can only do listening as Bluetooth proxies I was wrong, esphome is capable of bidirectional ble, see: #bluetooth-archived message, if ibeacon trackers are only broadcasting I don't see why it cannot? Maybe set log level to debug and see whether there are ibeacon related logs?

sage kestrel
fringe field
fringe field
#

But shared Bluetooth services should come online regardless of whether you have a dongle or just esphome etc

fringe field
grave perch
#

Thanks for the input, all of you. I’ll see if I can spin up a separate HA and do some clean testing.

gray holly
#

i cant find one of my bluetooth temperture sensors i had it before in my old home assistant but in the new home assistant i have all the temperture sensors execpt for one

#

how can i add it in i have govee bluetooth temperture sensors

fringe field
#

what have you tried?

#

if the others work the most likely issues are things like the battery in the one thats missing or its too far away from your bluetooth dongle

glacial turtle
#

Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to load Intel firmware file intel/ibt-0040-1050.sfi (-2) on Beelink S12 Pro OS 10.1, 10.0, and 9.5.

gaunt flume
glacial turtle
thorny wraith
#

I have some Switchbot bluetooth devices and the HA host has bluetooth. I'm running the Switchbot integration there, and the bluetooth devices near the HA host seem to work fine, but devices further away are spotty. Is there a way to extend the bluetooth coverage for HA? Like some sort of bluetooth repeater?

fringe field
#

Read the multiple adapters section or the remote adapters section

thorny wraith
#

How does having multiple adapters expand my coverage?

fringe field
#

It’s touched on in the docs, but the dongles don’t have to be in the same room, you can use usb over Ethernet, usb over ip or even just a long cable

gaunt flume
#

I'm recently researching bluetooth proxies as well, I can see recommendation is M5Stack Atom Lite from official esphome docs, I'm impressed by the overall build quality, ability to expand it with modules and a durable case however I run into Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32-C3 which comes with an external antenna: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41aAv7b80cL.jpg I wonder if it will be a better choice given my application? Any suggestion appreciated.

fringe field
#

In general external antennae worth it - range can be pretty low on some modules.

#

Ethernet is best - Bluetooth shares wifi radio and they can’t be both active at once, so it keeps switching between WiFi and ble. So you will probably miss transmissions with WiFi.

#

Active ble connection (polling or controlling) stops esp from processing passive data, so you might need multiple esps per zone

rugged scaffold
#

I connected all my xiaomi Miflora / Flower BLE care sticks to an esphome esp when Bluetooth was a problem with home assistant some months/year ago.
Now i needed that esp and would want all the miflora devices back in, directly via home assistant.

How do I do that?
They don’t have a reset/pair button afaik?

fringe field
#

If your HA has a usable BLE stick that’s connected via extension and not in an accidental faraday cage then just having it in range of HA will cause it to make a “discovery” in the integration page.

#

If you don’t see that then either your BLE stick ain’t working or it’s out of range of your MiFlora

#

See the docs for strategies to increase range

onyx tulip
#

upon a fresh install (x86) there are 2 integrations that popped up: default BT (hci0) and ibeacon tracker. Can someone tell me what the difference is between the two?

oblique oak
#

bluetooth is for the adapter itself

#

ibeacon tracker is an integration that happens to use bluetooth

onyx tulip
#

new question: trying to integrate my xiaomi bodyscale2 into HA OS but the default BT integration won't see it even though the documentation says it should, anyone know how to add it?

#

yeah, the hacs one worked and it sees the scale, job done

rugged scaffold
#

1 shows up as a deactivated device and deactivated entities I can’t remove

#

„The device is disabled by Config entry. Disabled devices will not be shown and entities belonging to the device will be disabled and not added to Home Assistant.“

#

The other one just doesn’t show up in home assistant and not as deactivated device but does show up in the „flower care“ app, so it should be working in Theory

fringe field
#

Number of times someone forgot they disabled something.. it’s like 50% of the ble support cases

fringe field
rugged scaffold
#

the "..." appears only after choosing 1 of the devices

fringe field
#

There’s definitely a menu for the integrations page

#

It can be hard to see but it’s there

#

Top of the page, not for the xiaomi integration

rugged scaffold
#

nvm had to deactivate the standar filter of deactivated integrations and it showed somewhere else in the list as "Flower care"

#

ty very much

onyx tulip
#

does the ibeacon integration work with the companion app's ibeacon sensor?

#

I have it in devices and I have the sensor set up on android but the two won't couple

copper aurora
#

are there any 5.x bluetooth adapters that work with HAOS? I've gone through that list of approved devices, without fail it seems the ones that are 5.X do not show up, but I've got 4.0 working

#

i'm not sure if there's much benefit to going to 5.x, I was assuming it'd have better range and the same benefits from having the latest standard

oblique oak
#

Almost no devices actually need 5.x. There is little benefit with the current range of supported devices

astral maple
#

I have question exist some feature in HA which tracking my BLE Device with ESPHome Proxy?

#

Some integration which Tracking my BLE Device (BLE iTag Button) and work with ESPHome Proxy this i mean

tender fjord
#

so i've setup a proxy with a m5stack atom, its linked in home assistant.
is that it? now just place it at a tatical location and im done?

#

its in safe mode, is that ok?

fringe field
#

I’ve never used safe mode, but it sounds like that would turn Bluetooth off?

#

So no?

#

But if you can get it out of safe mode, that is indeed it, just put it where you need it and profit.

tender fjord
devout hearth
fringe field
tender fjord
#

just connect do the install and connect

fringe field
#

there is an esphome dashboard you can install that can "adopt" the pre-made images, so you can install firmware updates in the future.

#

if you have HA OS it should be in the add-on store

#

worth getting that setup now, in case you are putting the proxy somewhere hard to get

tender fjord
#

great advice, will do it right away

#

its compiling now

hidden oasis
#

I've just ordered 10 MMwave sensors for my house. I've recently tested the HLK-LD2410C and it works perfectly on Bluetooth. Even beter than the Hue motion sensors that I have throughout our house. My question is how many ESP32 Bluetooth proxy's I can add and how many MMwave sensors? Is that limited?

#

I want to connect them to four ESP32 v4's

#

On different floors of our house. I think it's fun that you can automate with different parameters like distance and energy of motion etc.

#

The sensors only need a 5v power supply and they are up and running

fringe field
#

The limiting factors on your esp32s will be whether they have external antennas (the built in ones can be pants) and lack of Ethernet (WiFi and Bluetooth share radio time, it can’t do both at the same time)

#

There were some performance issues around esphome’s use of protobuf. There’s a pure python and a machine code version, and unfortunately HA was picking up the slow python one. If that’s still the case, you might find with four ESPs you need a lot of CPU. But that is on the list of things to deal with - it might even be fixed already. And if you have a fast CPU you won’t notice.

#

The most commonly referenced device is the olimex POE ESP with and external antenna

hidden oasis
fringe field
# hidden oasis Thank you for your answer. Our wifi is optimized and has wifi 6. I've also order...

Sounds good. Just so you have all the information - It’s not about your WiFi AP. Your ESP turns it’s WiFi off and turns it’s Bluetooth on, does some Bluetooth, turns Bluetooth off, turns wifi on, does some WiFi. This repeats. You can’t defeat this limitation with speed. This is fine for a lot of use cases but it is a limitation you need to understand. ESPs using Ethernet don’t have that limitation because they don’t have to share the WiFi.

hidden oasis
#

So for my understanding: the bluetooth proxy works as a repeater right?

#

Our house is well isolated so this might cause issue's if it does

#

Otherwise I'll have to find a solution to connect the mmwave sensor to the esp and use the wifi chip as the transmitter

fringe field
#

It depends what you mean by repeater

#

But not really

#

Imagine its a USB Bluetooth Dongle

#

but over WiFi

#

not true, but its probably a more accurate model of whats happening

devout hearth
#

If you could get your sensor to use WiFi, that might be better than using a Bluetooth proxy with WiFi, but you can try it out first to see how reliable it is.

fringe field
#

its more of a remote client than than a repeater

hidden oasis
#

3 dollars well spend 🙂 it's better than the Hue PIR sensor for example, of which I had plenty in our house. I've ordered ten extra mmwaves to create better automations

fringe field
#

Most sensors send duplicate packets which means for many use cases this isn’t a problem

hidden oasis
#

That sounds good! And otherwhise I'll purchase some UTP ones. There's a Mesh router on every floor, so it shouldn't be an issue to upgrade again. The ESP32's will always come in handy

hidden oasis
#

bargain

vapid glen
#

Where might I find info on getting Broadcom BCM43142A0 (0a5c:216d) Network / Bluetooth adapter working with Hassio? This integrated device (HP mini pc) is showing up but not configuring:

# 
D8:5D:E2:8C:E0:68
Bluetooth
Retrying setup: Bluetooth adapter None with address D8:5D:E2:8C:E0:68 not found```
# 
by Broadcom Corp
Firmware: homeassistant
Hardware: usb:v1D6Bp0246d053F ```
# 

Logger: homeassistant.config_entries
Source: config_entries.py:1247
First occurred: 8:37:04 AM (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 8:37:04 AM
Config entry 'D8:5D:E2:8C:E0:68' for bluetooth integration not ready yet: Bluetooth adapter None with address D8:5D:E2:8C:E0:68 not found; Retrying in background```
#

From boot time:

hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM43142A0-0a5c-216d.hcd'
hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM-0a5c-216d.hcd'
vapid glen
#

Looks like perhaps there is no support (driver) for this device? If that's the case, any way to add?

fringe field
#

You could try raising a GitHub ticket on the operating system repo

vapid glen
#

Thanks Jc2k - I'm running Hass.io version of this, I'll see if I can find the repo for that.

fringe field
#

There are normally 2 parts for this, if there’s no driver at all or it’s incomplete haos probably can’t help, you’d need to wait for Linux to get support.

#

If it’s just firmware it might be easier for them to help

#

But there are sometimes restrictions on redistributing firmware

#

But that GitHub link is best place to get help

vapid glen
#

Makes sense. I can try to boot from latest Ubuntu (or similar) USB stick to see if it works there first. If it's supported by the kernel directly, yadda yadda - but IIRC broadcom drivers generally (proprietary) don't ship that way on kernel 😦

#

Would be nice if I could sideload the lib so the docker picks it up

fringe field
#

Drivers aren’t related to docker

vapid glen
#

right... the base os.

#

shows what I know 😉

fringe field
#

HAOS is more like router firmware than an os

#

So the root partition is actually read only

#

And updates just replace the whole image

#

So sideloading os files is kinda hard

vapid glen
#

yeah which is why jamming it in there will only fix it until next update

#

some kind of mount that could be included every time would be nice.

#

(additional partition that is mounted regardless of update)

fringe field
#

There is a ticket for something like that

vapid glen
#

(maybe a script that handles the mounts)

#

(and the symlinks)

fringe field
#

But generally it’s better to just get firmware added (where it’s legal)

#

So everyone benefits

vapid glen
#

broadcom thou hehe

fringe field
#

A bit lefty I know

vapid glen
#

Nah I get it.

fringe field
#

Lots of Broadcom firmware is included

vapid glen
#

Really? hmm nice.

#

I'll see if I can hunt down step 1 (does this work with kernel) and go from there. Thanks again

#

It may be easier to just install another BT adapter, though this one is built into the hardware. Shame to waste it.

fringe field
#

Bluetooth on Linux is a bit of a mess. Generally we encourage an external one from our tested list on an extension cable (to get it away from interference)

vapid glen
#

makes sense. I'll hunt down that list too. Thanks again for your time - you are appreciated

fringe field
#

We see them crash a lot

#

Usb ones we can (sometimes) reset via the usb subsystem by simulating a re-plug

#

The onboard ones… well sometimes you have to cut power to recover them

#

🙄

vapid glen
#

I need to find a fairly high-reliability way to read the GoVee sensors I have. Need to monitor humidity and operate ultrasonic humidification. Have been using TH16 sensor/relay packages from Sonoff but they are too spotty (the sensors, that is - what a terrible connector design).

#

I bought some GoVees on a lark about a year ago and used them with high reliability from home, but now can't get the BT to work at the shop (rofl)

#

Thanks again

fringe field
#

My inkbird sensors are connected to an ESP32 Bluetooth proxy, the sensors are in fridge and freezer. Has been pretty reliable.

vapid glen
#

I didn't know there was an ESP32 proxy. I have a ton of ESP32s laying around...

#

Maybe that's higher reliability BT?

#

ahhaa from the docs:


 WARNING: These adapters may require additional patch files available at https://github.com/winterheart/broadcom-bt-firmware for stable operation.

There is currently no supported method to install these patch files when using Home Assistant Operating System.```
#

I also didn't know Inkbird made BT sensors.

#

This is great info - thank you.

idle basin
vapid glen
#

Like a Zigbee-Bluetooth gateway?

#

ah that just looks like a zigbee smart-plug.

idle basin
#

I wish

#

probably interference,

sterile pond
#

So all of my tuya products and other cheap smart devices make me find them by Bluetooth. Well it there some kind of magic hack to allow the Bluetooth to turn back on and us that as a proximity or presence detection since I have atleast 2 of those devices in each room?

#

I'm using local tuya hacs version

fringe field
#

You can replace the firmware of some tuya devices with tuya-convert, which can help you convert tuya devices to esphome.

#

I can’t tell you which ones support this, and I can’t promise you won’t brick your devices doing it

#

But if you can get esphome on there you have more options.

fringe field
#

(Even then I’m not sure there’s something built in for proximity detection)

vapid glen
#

I got my Bluetooth integration working and can see my GoVee devices now. However, I accidentally deleted a GoVee device it seems. Is there a way to undelete or re add a device to that integration? (Can't find the config)

fringe field
#

If you deleted the integration you might have to restart before it’s detected again

winged vector
#

Is it normal to have to put the Bluetooth adapter to passive scanning in order for devices to show up? As soon as I turn it off, the device (a Switchbot humidifier) is no longer detected

#

But also, despite being detected, it's in an Unknown state and doesn't react to on/off commands

winged vector
#

Looks like the log has "bleak_retry_connector.BleakOutOfConnectionSlotsError: A8-03-2A-C3-91-72 (A8:03:2A:C3:91:72) - A8:03:2A:C3:91:72: Failed to connect: No backend with an available connection slot that can reach address A8:03:2A:C3:91:72 was found: The proxy/adapter is out of connection slots; Add additional proxies near this device"

winged vector
#

solution: reset the switchbot, use a much shorter cable for the dongle

devout hearth
#

Weird that made a difference. The error implies that you have too many active devices. I guess maybe the longer cable was causing some temporary active things to take longer to where they were colliding, but that may not be how it works at all and almost certainly isn't the correct terminology.

hollow night
#

Hello, can someone help me out around Bluetooth signal logging, or sending. I want to figure out why my 2 bluetooth devices when triggered at the same time create a delay around 15 seconds between them. Cant for the sake of me figure out why this is happening.

Talking about the SwitchBot devices, 1 bot and 1 lock. Whenever I use them separately, they work instantly, the moment I trigger them in a row, the get a delay of around 15 seconds between them, like First BOT, 15 seconds pause, then LOCK... like wtf.

This worked without any issues few weeks ago? Honestly, after a HASS update it just went like this. Not sure if BT, HASS or SwitchBot... and can't figure it out...

THanks for help! ❤️

#

And for future reference, I bought a CSR8510 A10 bluetooth, like referend in the manual. And I have 2 ESP BLuetooth Proxies.

fringe field
#

Can only assume that your Bluetooth dongle is no longer working properly with latest Linux and the BLE monitor “uncrasher” is having more luck than the built in one.

hollow night
#

My Hass is on a RPI4, and the same issue appears on the RPI BT adapter. But good conclusion though

fringe field
#

Given ble monitor bypasses bluez (which we use to be able to control devices) the auto restart is only bit left

#

Would be interesting if haos 9.5 had same problem or not

hollow night
#

Thanks mate for you feedback

rigid eagle
#

These messages are spamming my Host log. What could it be? I have one device connected fine with bluetooth.
May 26 18:16:15 homeassistant bluetoothd[351]: Unable to create object for found device 00:00:00:00:00:00
May 26 18:16:17 homeassistant bluetoothd[351]: src/device.c:device_new() Unable to register device interface for 00:00:00:00:00:00
May 26 18:16:17 homeassistant bluetoothd[351]: Unable to create object for found device 00:00:00:00:00:00
May 26 18:16:17 homeassistant bluetoothd[351]: src/device.c:device_new() Unable to register device interface for 00:00:00:00:00:00
May 26 18:16:17 homeassistant bluetoothd[351]: Unable to create object for found device 00:00:00:00:00:00
May 26 18:16:18 homeassistant bluetoothd[351]: src/device.c:device_new() Unable to register device interface for 00:00:00:00:00:00

vapid glen
#

Curious to see if it even sees an actual controller at 00:00:00:00:00 or if that's just noise indicating some other error.

rigid eagle
#

Should the terminal start spamming non stop after bluetoothctl?

vapid glen
#

yes you'll see lots of BT traffic.

#

what do you get from show command?

rigid eagle
#

Allright. When i type show, i get one controller with a normal adress

#

not the 00:00:00:00:00

vapid glen
#

So it must be a device it's complaining about that's trying to use address 00 I'm guess, not sure

#

Watch that window for any traffic from 00:00

#

it would coincide with the spammy log entry if anything. Barring that, I think someone here with a lot more knowledge than I have may need to help

rigid eagle
#

There is one in the spam. [CHG] Device 00:00:00:00:00 RSSI -97

vapid glen
#

Looks like some device advertising itself as 00:00:00:00:00

#

an RSSI of -97 is really weak btw

#

so it's likely far from your machine. If your machine is portable you might be able to find the source by moving around until you get that RSSI much higher

rigid eagle
#

Could it be my oral b toothbrush?

vapid glen
#

bring the toothbrush close to the machine and see if that RSSI gets much higher (less negative)

#

it's Received Signal Strength Indication, measured in dBm

#

so every time you 1/2 the distance the strength should go up by 4x linear

#

(assuming isometric emitter)

rigid eagle
#

-64 now when its right next to it

#

57

vapid glen
#

-57 or 57?

rigid eagle
vapid glen
#

so now move it really far away

#

or place it inside microwave oven (Faraday cage) (do not turn on microwave!) to see if it disappears all together

#

could also wrap it in foil

rigid eagle
#

-92! Then it has to be the toothbrush?

vapid glen
#

a small data set

#

collect more data to be confident

#

have a microwave oven?

#

Or take your toothbrush on a road trip 1/8 mile away 🙂

#

I don't know enough about bluetooth protocol to know if address 00 is normally used in advertising or otherwise, but it sounds strange that it would spam your logs.

rigid eagle
#

Haha lemme try! BRB

vapid glen
#

don't turn on the microwave

#

just close the door.

rigid eagle
#

No but I actually turned it on and off

#

Then there was a bunch of [NEW] in the spam log

vapid glen
#

(imagining a lithium ion battery fire in your microwave hehe)

rigid eagle
#

And now I think the 0.0.0.0 is gone from the spam? Haha

vapid glen
#

if it's gone then for sure it's your toothbrush.

#

Or a great series of coincidences.

rigid eagle
#

Looked like it generated a new adress for it or something, I have no idea about this haha

vapid glen
#

It

#
  • it's fun though, yeah?
rigid eagle
#

Haha absolutely one of the more fun troubleshootings haha

#

Gonna check the log now

#

Haha it stopped

#

I guess there was a bug with the oral b integration or something? I think this happened after I migrated to a NUC with new bluetooth. Since then I just deactivated the bluetooth because of the spam in the log. Shouldve just taken a brush instead.

#

Thanks for the help 😎

fringe field
#

The error was from bluetoothd, that’s part of the Linux Bluetooth stack. So not a HA bug, whatever it was.

#

And oral b doesn’t normally use 00;00:00:00:00:00 (my neighbours have one that intermittently gets detected by my ha)

rigid eagle
#

Hmm okey, the same message came back..

#

Is it something to just ignore?

#

Its spamming the Host log almost every second

fringe field
#

It’s not ideal - those log entries get saved to disk, so will contribute to disk wear

#

But unlikely something that can be resolved.

#

Short of getting a new toothbrush

heavy helm
#

Does anyone have any advice on using the LD2410B ble I am able to get it connected using the bluetooth proxy and it shows up in HA but quiet frequently it becomes unavailable is there any way to remedy this ? right now I have 2 esphome BT proxies for my whole house

fringe field
#

(Mine don’t and barely cover 1 room each)

heavy helm
fringe field
#

Definitely

#

The WiFi proxies have to share one radio for Bluetooth and WiFi, so Ethernet Bluetooth proxies are your best bet

heavy helm
heavy helm
sterile pond
#

I setup room assistant but it seems to lose tracking when my phone is locked. I have both Bluetooth classic and BLE setup with my Mac address if that means anything

oblique oak
#

If you are making active connections it’s recommended to deploy the proxies in pairs on opposite sides of the room since when a connection is in progress it cannot receive advertisements

heavy helm
heavy helm
#

Just wondering is the HA integration for the LD2410 BLE going to eventually allow configuration like the esphome integration?

rare magnet
#

Is there any way to give HASS access to my Bluetooth adapter without using net=host? For various reasons I can’t use HASS is host mode, and no amount of mounting volumes and giving it privileged access seems to work either…

#

There’s a lot of questions online with no answers :/

fringe field
#

You need to bind mount the dbus socket and make the container privileged

#

If that doesn’t work then double check your path for the Dbus socket. Some distros put it in /run, some in /var/run. But then they do a symlink to the other. So it’s not obvious which you should use.

#

Obviously bind mounting symlink is sad

rare magnet
#

It does detect it mind you, so I guess it is mounted correctly 🤔

#

Maybe my bluez is too old then? Apt doesn’t have a newer one though

#

Then again this server has been going a looooong time, so it’s not exactly a fresh Ubuntu install

rotund sail
#

Should be fine, if you've kept it updated

fringe field
#

5.43 is the minimum, however anything below 5.63 will likely get you a "try upgrading your OS" when getting support

#

(if it does work, it'll probably be unreliable)

#

Ubuntu Focal has 5.53, so really Jammy is the minimum realistic version according to docs

idle basin
#

So I have a Olimex ESP32 Power-over-Ethernet ISO, I flashed itusing installer, https://esphome.github.io/bluetooth-proxies/ . I plugged the device in, I can ping it. I see the IP. Doesn't show up anywhere, don't see web server when I type in IP

#

am I crazy, what am I missing?

oblique oak
#

It should get discovered in HA

#

if not, you can add the esphome integration manually

idle basin
idle basin
oblique oak
#

is your mdns working?

idle basin
#

Meh. Yes, but that's where my life gets complicated 🙂

#

My home assistant is in another location. I have a site to site VPN. Usually I enter the IP of devices to add them just fine here. I probably have 50+ devices all communicating back

#

For example I use zigbee poe, the tubez adapter here. No issues

#

Docker ESPHOME_DASHBOARD_USE_PING should do it?

#

Nope, already got that

#

Nevermind

untold ermine
#

Any ESPHome device can be made into a BT proxy? For some reason I thought you needed a dedicated device

oblique oak
#

just an esp32 chip

untold ermine
#

Oh that giant warning says I can't do an OTA update though...

#

Most of my devices are S31's. Don't feel like cracking those open

untold ermine
# oblique oak just an esp32 chip

Btw that BT dongle you recommended me still hasn't fixed my issues. I'm suspecting maybe it has something to do with the fact that I'm running in a VM

oblique oak
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yeah that wouldn't be suprising

untold ermine
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My logs are still spammed with BT errors and the devices I do control are spotty

oblique oak
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I have one system I just use the proxies on for similar reasons

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I have a lot of ESP32-EVB-EA deployed anyways

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so easy to use them for proxies as well

untold ermine
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Yeah. I think I might try a dedicated BT proxy

oblique oak
untold ermine
oblique oak
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I use them to control relays, power, etc

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I have one wired to a TV lift

untold ermine
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Cool

timber meadow
oblique oak
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Yes. I’m 4000 miles away from it so have to wait until July

umbral brook
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i have the nortek hub usb stick which i dont think supports bluetooth, but I am reading about using shelly devices as a bluetooth proxy, would that be enough on its own or do I need some other hardware for bluetooth integration?

fringe field
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If you want to control a device, Shelly is not enough.

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Some sensors will work, some won’t.

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The best setup is esphome on an esp32 with an external antenna and ideally Ethernet (like the olimex poe). You might want 2 per zone, as esp32 can’t process broadcasts while it’s actively connected to a Device.

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WiFi works but radio airtime is split between WiFi and Bluetooth, it can’t do both at once.

vapid valve
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in terms of lowering energy use, is it best to make a phone a beacon and track it with an esp, or make an esp a beacon and track it with a phone?

fringe field
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Your phone is probably transmitting beacons anyway

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So running an esp in passive mode probably uses less in that case

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Let’s say you need 5 esps to get the coverage you need, 5 esp transmitting vs 1 phone transmitting

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Active scanning by the esps would involve 5 esps transmitting scanning packets, so definitely more wasteful than purely passive beacon processing.

cursive juniper
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When I install the ESPHome add-on the Bluetooth integration disappears, making all BTHome sensors become unavailable. Uninstalling ESPHome brings everything back. Is this normal? Is ESPHome incompatible with Bluetooth? (HA Supervised 2023.5.3 running on Pine64A-2G SBC)

fringe field
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No, installing an add ok should not have an impact on an integration

crisp haven
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I have HA running on a laptop so it has built in bluetooth. I added "bluetooth:" to my config. When i try to add the integration I get "No unconfigured Bluetooth adapters found. There are 0 ignored adapters."

How do I set this up? Im trying to get govee bluetooth light strips into HA

cursive juniper
fringe field
fringe field
fringe field
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I assume there are no errors in your logs?

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Can you post screenshots or even a video of this happening?

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Do other addons cause this?

cursive juniper
# fringe field Can you post screenshots or even a video of this happening?

Hello @fringe field, I'm sure now my house has some gremlins!! Following your request, I've repeated step by step what I've done several times already, but this time having two windows open on my laptop - one with the Add-ons installing ESPHome, and the other showing the Integrations, recording the whole process with my iPad. And nothing happens!! Now I have both ESPHome and Bluetooth Intfgration. I'm sure there are gremlins!! Thank you anyway, maybe they just fear the mention of you 🙂

fringe field
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ha

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glad its working for you

deep pebble
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Is there a way to retrieve battery data/state from earphones/earbuds - connected to android phone or/and pc?

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I read that there was some way (android) with Tasker, but that later on some changes in Android Update broke that...

lusty briar
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Bluetooth: hci1: Frame reassembly failed (-84)
How do I fix this?
I've found nothing but dead threads via Google. I've checked the dongles, power requirements, and reinstalled the integration.

lusty briar
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Does the HAOS handle Bluetooth drivers or do I need to check them? Maybe the driver is out of date?

vague frost
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Hey, am I misreading the capabilities of this extension?
It seems like it should be able to work with BlueTooth BLE, and even has a thing for passive scanning.

what I'm curious if I can get working is working with these BroadLink lights/remotes/gateway that are supposed to be BLE https://amzn.to/3OZT8Tm

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Unfortunately, it seems like the existing BroadLink integrations don't support this currently (though they do seem to support some other lights, possibly over IR?) so I was thinking that the Bluetooth extension might be able to hear the BLE commands from the Remote, for example, or send commands to the Gateway, or even maybe directly to the lights

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I know that currently it is in my machine with an Intel adapter, that came with the WiFi card, but that doesn't seem like it is on the supported list - though it did seem to find the adapter and configure it easily enough

fringe field
fringe field
fringe field
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You can’t just “record” like with IR, you have to make a custom integration that handles discovery and parsing and stuff.

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The supported list is a list of tested devices, it’s not exclusive. Anything supported by bluez will work to some degree. It might be slower. It might crash frequently. It might not support multiple devices in parallel. But it should work a bit.

vague frost
# fringe field The Bluetooth integration is a framework that other integrations build on. It wo...

Ahh gotcha, I had it in my head I just needed to go to yaml and say "these are the BLE hardware IDs to watch for" and then it might start finding it.

But this is more for OTHER integrations to use Bluetooth, cool no worries. I'm not gonna learn how to write a whole integration JUST to get some random lights I have working... At least not till I discover more free time... I think my 3-7am aren't taken by anything important yet

Ahhh, yeah and for the IR, most of the Broadcom stuff is IR, but these newer things are BLE

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But thanks for helping me not feel crazy that I couldn't figure out where in the existing UI I was supposed to find what I was looking for!

fringe field
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no worries

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every BLE device is different

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some change their MAC address for privacy reasons so we can't even easily de-dupe discoveries out of the box

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some misuse fields in the spec to get bigger payloads, so even looking up a vendor id is unreliable

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and even if we then find a device, some have encryption protcols, some use bitmasks to put multiple values into the same field... it ends up being quite a lot of work, and beyond what you can put in yaml

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and all unique to one vendor

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but a lot of an integration is boilerplate

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so if you change your mind, find an integration for a similar device and start renaming things and you'll be half way there

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(if you know python, anyway)

lusty briar
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So I've tried everything to get this Bluetooth to work. I've deleted the integration and reinstalled, I checked 2 Bluetooth dongles (original - don't know the manufacturer and test - ASUSBT500) in 2 completely separate systems (PC & laptop) confirming that both work, rebooted HA but both only work for a few moments then tap out.

There are posts about this issue going back almost 3 years with no confirmed fix on multiple forums. Can someone point me in a direction for a resolution?

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PC is windows and laptop Linux Mint.

fringe field
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The current Bluetooth support in HA hasn’t existed for 3 years

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I’m not even sure it’s a year old yet

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I’m also not sure if it’s even meant to work on windows.

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Oh you mean the frame reassembly

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You won’t get any answers for that here

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It’s a kernel issue

lusty briar
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I was just testing the BT dongles on other machines to exclude the dongles being the problem. I'll look a bit deeper down the rabbit hole that is Linux for a solution, thanks.

soft wyvern
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I have several ESPHome BT proxies around the house

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can I somehow get the MAC address out of them?

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I have an beacon enabled on my phone, and want to know to which one it is connected

pure zealot
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hi folks, I'm struggling to get BT trackers to work in HAOS. There's something in the logs about Unable to install package pybluez==0.22, so the error looks similar to https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/45642, but my platform is HAOS, shouldn't bluez be provided there?

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funnily enough, if I open the terminal using my ssh terminal integration and try to pip install pybluez==0.22 there, I'm getting a different error message (Python.h can't be found, so I guess I'm missing the python3-dev package, but that can't be installed via apk as it complains about conflicts)

fringe field
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There wasn’t a release that worked with modern python 3

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HA has largely shifted to “bleak” instead

pure zealot
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well, I wouldn't even have looked at it if it wasn't for the integration trying to install it

strange folio
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After updating to 2023.6.0 BT tracker stopped working and I got this error:
Platform error device_tracker.bluetooth_tracker - Requirements for bluetooth_tracker not found: ['pybluez==0.22']. Tried pip install pybluez==0.22 with no luck...
Reverted back to:
Home Assistant 2023.5.4
Supervisor 2023.06.1
Operating System 10.2
and started working again. Any ideas?

fringe field
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Pybluez hasn’t had a release for 4 years

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2023.6 switched to python 3.11

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Only provides binaries for py 3.7

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So I guess that integration is just dead now

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(Bluetooth_tracker doesn’t use the current Bluetooth framework in ha)

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Some fairly grim workarounds in the forum

untold ermine
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Anyone use a shelly blue 1 button for location tracking?

strange folio
hidden oasis
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I have a rpi4. I have setup a Govee thermometer which works over BLE. When I try to enable "normal" bluetooth I get "No unconfigured Bluetooth adapters found. There are 0 ignored adapters."

fringe field
indigo kindle
fringe field
fringe field
hidden oasis
hidden oasis
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I used the custom one before, but I switched to the official one

fringe field
hidden oasis
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yes

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hmm, I just noticed a new integration called bluetooth

fringe field
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Yes

hidden oasis
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doesnt let me add new entries though?

fringe field
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No

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You probably already have it set up

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Govee_ble uses it you see

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So you can’t add it again

hidden oasis
#

so how do I connect a bluetooth speaker?

fringe field
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That’s not what the Bluetooth integration is for

hidden oasis
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what is it for?

fringe field
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To make all the integrations like govee_ble work

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There isn’t a Bluetooth speaker integration or add on

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Not in core anyway

untold ermine
#

So question about iBeacons I'm just realizing doesn't make sense. iBeacons report a distance to HA. However, HA can have multiple BT proxies which will all have a different distance to the device. How is this reconciled? It doesn't make sense that an iBeacon would report a single distance when there are multiple nodes it has a distance from

fringe field
untold ermine
cosmic prawn
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So I picked up a Shelly BLU button1 but I am unable to get the button press events. BTHome autodetected the device but by default only a battery entity is enabled. 2 other sensors, packetid and signal strength were there and I could enable them.. I do not see any way to get a button entity. I used the Shelly Debug BLE devices app on my phone to update the firmware but still no dice.. What am I missing?

oblique oak
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it generates events. there is no button entity

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once you press you'll be able to make automations for it

cosmic prawn
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Ahahaa DOH. I can't believe I didn't try device instead of looking at entities for a trigger. All good now.

haughty imp
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Hello everyone, I would like to ask if there is a possibility to integrate Razer Leviathan V2 X sound bar to HA via Bluetooth. I know the there's the ha-chrome library (https://github.com/Vaskivskyi/ha-chroma)

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But I'll like to know if there's a possibility to change the colors only via Bluetooth without a windows PC acting as a bridge

toxic adder
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Hey guys, is there any way to control the Gardena Sileno Minimo (Bluetooth connectivity only) via HA?
I use the Gardena Bluetooth app for this so far, but control via HA would be great!

dense mantle
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Anyone using Bluetooth proxy on ESP32 with the Inkbird floating pool thermostat? I have it setup and it's works for hours, but then stops working for hours and i can't figure out why.

onyx tulip
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hey is there any way of setting up bluetooth room presence with just the default bt integration and the androin companion app?

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can the mobile work as an ibeacon? I see an ibeacon transmitter sensor in the app , it says it's transmitting

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I also have the ibeacon integration working in HA. How can I take advantage of the mobile's sensor

mellow sand
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I'm having trouble getting Bluetooth to work. It's in a continuous loop of "initializing" and "retrying setup". Supposedly this is a known issue on Intel systems and gets fixed with HassOS 10.3 - I just updated but am having this issue

fringe field
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if you are new to HA, its probably worth trying on that old release if you are able, as it will let you know if you are suffering from one of the kernel regressions.

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try unplugging your bluetooth adaptor and reseating it. even mine from the supported list needs a power cycle every few months, unfortunately. as thats likely a firmware bug on the device itself theres not much we can do.

mellow sand
# fringe field try unplugging your bluetooth adaptor and reseating it. even mine from the suppo...

Thanks for the info! Looks like I'm out of luck unless I buy a new Bluetooth adapter. I'm using a 2010 Mac Mini, with it's integrated BT. (Broadcom if I recall). The support list says Broadcom needs a patch file, but that's not supported on HAOS. I don't have the option of rolling back either as I'm taking advantage of newer features. I never tried to enable Bluetooth before, so I have no idea if it even worked or not on older versions

fallow viper
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the good news is that the adapters are, if not dirt cheap, close to it

fringe field
mellow sand
proud vale
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Hello, I have a bluetooth lamp that is not compatible with Google hom. I would like to know if I can control it from home assistant.

iron frost
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that's impossible to answer without knowing which lamp

proud vale
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I have lampe philips hue bluetooth

hidden oasis
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That should work with Google as long as it's NOT zigbee if it's zigbee you need a zigbee stick and Z2M (Zigbee to MQTT) to control it with HA

willow solstice
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nevermind, I've read myself that they are bluetooth and zigbee, and that Hue is making all their new bulbs the same way

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but still need to know your model

idle basin
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Is there any "real" benefit to tuya ble vs local? If local didn't exist obviously Bluetooth.

hidden oasis
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localtuya supports more devices

iron frost
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local is for all kinds of protocols, BLE isn't

lusty briar
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Latest HAOS fixed my BLE issues! Thanks to all that provided help!

sterile relic
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Has anyone got govee ble strip lights working with HASS?

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Using pi4b running HAS OS

brittle helm
sterile relic
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Bruh 💀

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Why is Bluetooth so hard to work with

rotund sail
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Because it's just a radio protocol, like WiFi, and manufacturers can do what they want using it

sterile relic
#

ig

sterile relic
rotund sail
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Bluetooth in general, or some specific device?

sterile relic
rotund sail
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Did you search the channel history?

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Did you do a general Google search for home assistant govee ble?

sterile relic
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briefly

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ye, it just comes up with humidity sensors and stuffg

rotund sail
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I know better than to buy random Bluetooth (or WiFi) devices and hope they work 😛

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I stick with Zigbee, and known to work hardware

sterile relic
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ye, i had them before i was using home assistant but i just thought it would be nice if i could get it to work

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i bought then when i was 10

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cant find anything in the channel history

fallow viper
narrow tangle
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Morning all, I just updated my ESP32 which was set up as a BLE tracker for Xiaomi temperature/humidity sensors around the house. It was all working as expected previous to the ESP32 update. However it does not seem to be receiving any data from my Xiaomi sensors... any ideas on what could be wrong?

fringe field
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Do you mean an ESPhome Bluetooth proxy?

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Or something else?

narrow tangle
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Everything was working as in before I updated the firmware haha

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I can see this entry
[08:19:51][D][esp32_ble_tracker:246]: Starting scan...

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But no values from my sensors are being received

oblique oak
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check the esphome config entry diagnostics

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if the scanner is working you'll see the discovered devices in there

fringe field
oblique oak
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Esphome 2023.6.0 has Bluetooth advertisement bundling. It a major upgrade in performance and reliability of the proxies.

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You’ll need Home Assistant 2023.7.x or later to make use of it (beta next week)

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This was a huge step forward , at least for my production setup

solar perch
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I replaced all my zigbee thermometers last year with the Xiaomi ATC Mi Thermometers, running BThome. Then the v1 format was deprecated in November 😂

faint eagle
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Maybe pvvx will add v2 soon

untold ermine
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Anyone else try the Shelly blu button 1? I just realized the battery on it is draining really fast. Probably due to it updating too frequently. I have the shelly bt debug app, but I don't see how I can control any of the settings of the button.

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Kinda disappointed in this since it was advertised as working so well with our BTHome standard...

faint eagle
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Maybe active polling? (i mean scanning)

untold ermine
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If that's the case, there's no configuration for BTHome to control this

faint eagle
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Are you using esphome on esp32s for the Bluetooth proxy feature?

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I think by default they actively scan

fringe field
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So that’s not active polling

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Active polling means building a 2 way full Bluetooth connection

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Active scanning a broadcast that asks everyone to broadcast

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Which sounds horrendous but it’s not that bad in the general case

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(At least the ble monitor people have some anecdotal evidence that it makes no difference for their lost common devices)

echo jasper
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is bluetooth a viable way of detecting presence?

iron frost
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Yes

echo jasper
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Rad. And you can get extra ESP devices for extending the bluetooth range from HA?

fallow viper
#

it's not HA which is doing the detection

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you have each esp being separate, and reporting back over mqtt. HA listens to that

iron frost
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You can also do it through Bluetooth proxies... Somewhat

echo jasper
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ok so the beacons are the devices like watches and phones or whatever, they are the mqtt clients, and then getting base stations to plug in throughout the house for room-based presence?

fallow viper
#

no

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Beacons are bluetooth devices that yell "I'm here!". The esp devices are listening for that, and when they hear, they report on mqtt about it by mac address of the beacon. Home assistant is listening on mqtt for those reports.

echo jasper
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got it. and if i have that right, then getting those devices plugged into rooms and configured, i can teach HA that if BT device "kinabalu" is found in "Kitchen" then presence is there

fallow viper
#

(I figured a video explainer would probably be better than a back and forth in text 😄 )

untold ermine
jovial saffron
#

Does anyone know how to get the Qingping Air Monitor Lite connected into HA? One thread says to pair it into the Tuya app first, but I can't even get that working.

simple acorn
#

Changed batteries on my Inkbird pond temp sensor and now it won’t become available again. Already restarted the integration And Ha, but still nothing. Any suggestions please?

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It’s connected over BT proxies, mostly Shelly

echo jasper
#

hey so, to get mqtt_presence working, do I need to install an MQTT add-on with Home Assistnat?

rotund sail
simple acorn
coral gull
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is it possible to setup some openwrt routers i have as bluetooth proxies? it seems like so far only esphome and shelly are supported?

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openwrt is basically just linux, so if there is even an example to run on linux, i could start there

fallow viper
fringe field
# coral gull openwrt is basically just linux, so if there is even an example to run on linux,...

So depends on what you are doing. The Shelly and esp Bluetooth proxies are Bluetooth clients running on the remote device, and bespoke extensions to the Shelly and esp APIs to allow HA to call the methods on those remote clients. Then both integrations had to be extended with support for calling those APIs and wrapping them to be compatible with the core usb Bluetooth integration. Making one is quite a bit of work, and there’s nothing in esphome that you can easily borrow to make your own. If any more devices are going to be supported as proxies it’s likely going to be someone who has one and is good with embedded programming and python. There isn’t a roadmap with that on or anything.

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However…

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You can use usb over ip to make multiple remote usb Bluetooth dongles appear as local usb dongles on your HA machine

coral gull
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i’ll look into the usb over ip i guess. my routers have bluetooth built in, but maybe that would work. but it makes sense it’s not reusable if it was only done for embedded systems instead of linux

echo jasper
fringe field
neat magnet
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For adding Bluetooth capability, how does an esp32 with esphome compare to a usb adapter, "high performance" or otherwise?

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I'm buying a bunch of boards for development, and will have a few left over

iron frost
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you can't plug an usb adapter wherever you want on the other hand the connection is wireless unless you use a board with Ethernet and wireless is inherently less reliable

neat magnet
#

There's the 3 device limit that I'm aware of, but the advantage of placing it anywhere in the house

neat magnet
#

And I can always connect the devboard with usb

iron frost
#

inherently less reliable

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not unreliable

neat magnet
iron frost
#

i don't know what you mean by that

neat magnet
# iron frost not **un**reliable

🤕 I just meant esphome has become quite impressive recently in terms of reliability, wasn't sure how recent your knowledge was

neat magnet
iron frost
#

sure, if you think so

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i meant what you mean by "usb critical connections"

neat magnet
iron frost
#

that's not how it works, it still uses wifi to communicate to HA

neat magnet
#

Really?

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Let me check 1 sec

late jasper
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I have an rpi and its bluetooth I can see in HA but there's no automation available for the device. Is it normal?

iron frost
#

for which device?

neat magnet
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@iron frost seems like you're right, thanks for pointing that out

iron frost
#

who knew, eh...

neat magnet
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Hey come on

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Anyway I think I could add an ethernet port to the board if I really need to and connect it that way

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Might not be much cheaper than a regular usb adapter at that point tho

iron frost
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sure if you're experienced with working with dev boards

neat magnet
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Well I'm buying them cause I'm developing an embedded device

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If I can't make this work then I have bigger problems

zinc iris
#

hi! previously posted to general but this may be the right place to ask.

I've been using HA as a docker image for over a year, on a Debian 11 host, and I often have to issue service bluetooth stop && service bluetooth start as I discover that my BLE device data stops being updated in HA.

it's random, sometimes no problem for weeks, sometimes multiple times a day.

anyone with linux knowledge care to point me towards ways to troubleshoot this kind of issue? 🙏

late jasper
zinc iris
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I found nothing in dmesg, nothing in syslog either (best I could find is that sometimes I get a log message related to an hci device timeout when I stop the bluetooth service)

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it's using btusb+btrtl modules, and I have had the problem with two different bluetooth dongles so far

cosmic raptor
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i remember bluetooth trouble when the server ran > a week. I just reboot it Mon 02:00 am and never saw this again

fringe field
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Ha tries to reset bad Bluetooth dongles but some of them don’t have the reset pin connected

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The frequency of needing restarts is determined by your dongle, kernel version and bluez version

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Generally nothing we can do at that level. Haos has patches to fix the odd regression upstream, but with Debian you are on your own

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We’re both dongles realtek?

zinc iris
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both realtek indeed

zinc iris
#

is there a way to check whether the reset pin is connected or not?

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alternatively, if there is a list of supported dongles that can be reset by HA, I would buy one of them 😅

fringe field
#

Yea there is

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If you look at the Bluetooth integration documentation on the Ha website

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There is a list of “high performance” dongles

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Realistically you want one of those

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It describes the testing methodology and the TL;DR is that one chipset seems to be better for connection speed and the other the number of connections.

brazen rampart
#

Has anyone had luck with espresense and a pixel watch and phone? I can't seem to get a solution to work. Neither seem to broadcast their bluetooth. I turned on BLE transmit with the companion app. I can see it in the terminal as a new device, but it doesn't send any data to home assistant.
I can confirm that using some other bluetooth that it can find does work. But IBeacon doesn't seem to do much.

devout hearth
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I just obtained an Olimex ESP32-POE-ISO, flashed it using https://esphome.github.io/bluetooth-proxies/ and added it to Home Assistant. I already have a "high performance" usb adapter attached to the same instance and did this because one of my devices was just barely in range. I'm not sure if the proxy is working or not; the log book shows an entity whose name ends with "safe mode boot" which appears to be a diagnostic button, but that bounces between "unknown" and "unavailable" in the logs with no other states, and there are no other entities, either. Is there anything I can do to verify whether or not the proxy is working that won't interfere with my bluetooth devices which are out of range of the proxy but in range of the USB stick?

fringe field
#

HA manages which bluetooth proxy / adaptor its going to use for a given bluetooth device for you, it will use the one with the best signal and stick to that unless (a) that choice seems to now be failing, (b) a new choice is available that is A LOT stronger. So if the olimex takes over it will be because its a better choice. It shouldn't cause the connection to get worse.

#

But you could use the signal strength entity (provided by the integration you are using, not the proxy) to make sure

devout hearth
#

There are devices listed in the diag json file. So maybe it is working fine in spite of the old looking logs.

#

It has rssi values, too... Signal strength would just match them up?

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Signal strength entity looks disabled on the device in question, but I can't even find it in the entities list.

fringe field
#

i assume you've got "Show disabled entities" clicked?

devout hearth
#

Yeah, I tried hidden, too.

fringe field
#

but you can see it on the device?

devout hearth
#

The diag file ends with
"connectable": true, "discovered_device_timestamps": {}, "time_since_last_device_detection": {}
so I'm probably good regardless.

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When I look at the device I see an Identify diagnostic entity and +1 entity not shown. When I click that, I see Signal strength, but it is grey.

fringe field
#

click on it

#

there should be an empty history page right?

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then click on the cog/gear

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I see "This entity is disabled" in a yellow banner, and there is an enable button

devout hearth
#

The empty history page also had a banner reading This entity is unavailable. Clicking on the cog worked, though, and it looks like I can enable it and wait 30 seconds.

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Now showing Unavailable more than 30 seconds later.

#

I guess maybe it will update next time it wakes?

fringe field
#

yeah, if its not transmitting it might not update.

devout hearth
#

I'll monitor it. Thanks for the help.

oblique oak
#

The ethernet connected ESPHome ones generally beat out the local ones

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and the 3 connected device limit is usually not a problem since the local adapters start to get a bit unstable with more than 5 anyways so we limit them to 5

#

The ESPs actually support 9 with the latest IDF but increasing the limit hasn't really been a priority as we have been focusing on relibility and performance

#

Especially since the vendor recommends 3 for maximum stability

velvet sigil
#

Hi! The computer I use as my HA Server does not have bluetooth and I would like to remove the attempt to setup when HA is booting up

#

is there a way to remove trying to setup bluetooth entirely from HA?

iron frost
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No

velvet sigil
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is there a way to stop the "bluetooth is taking over 10 seconds" error message then?

rigid pollen
oblique oak
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no. personally I only use the ESPs for my larger install

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especially now that esphome 2023.6.x + HA 2023.7.x uses less run time and performs better than the local ones

rigid pollen
lean pollen
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Hello
I would like to ask for help
Has anyone used a similar bluetooth adapter?
Does this work as a home assistant?
I can't find a chip type to check on the supported list

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005288460376.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.51.96d37f918ZcWtI&algo_pvid=dcc8f763-3129-4bc3-a416-45ec4d5b17c5&algo_exp_id=dcc8f763-3129-4bc3-a416-45ec4d5b17c5-25&pdp_npi=3%40dis!HUF!5072.73!1682.75!!!!!%402102111816880620544694927d07ee!12000032501830784!sea!HU!0&curPageLogUid=MdxqOwjZsRAP

iron frost
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That's a generic adapter with an unknown chip inside

devout hearth
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Looks like it was -94 until I woke it up, so I guess that confirms the proxy is working and likely that -82 is better than -94...

oblique oak
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System Support: Windows 8.1/10/11.(Not work with Mac OS, Linux. car systems, Xbox and TVs.)

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the ones that at least claim to support linux are usually not so great

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bad enough when they outright say it won't work

oblique oak
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get that one

timber meadow
oblique oak
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Won’t be there until after the us holiday

timber meadow
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(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

idle basin
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I've messed around with my bluetooth to much, I have some proxies, but I also have an adapter and the Pi4, I completely disabled the Pi4. Also before that, I deleted all my iBeacons, and now I can't find any at all. Anyway just to get my bluetooth back to ground zero?

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Tuya BLE and fingerpot works perfectly fine

idle basin
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I think my ibeacon issue is unrelated. So I guess I'll solve that.

velvet sigil
velvet sigil
flint compass
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not sure if related to #bluetooth-archived but..

I have been using Switchbot integration for a while, I had a SwitchBot device that I think I removed from Home Assistant back in the days, and yesterday I have set it up again via SwitchBot app and Switchbot Hub, however I cannot see or add the new device, as long as I hit Add device I get instantly the following message: No devices found on the network (note that device is working and connected to the same network that HA is using).
How can I workaround that and add that bot to my HA (got already 4 bot devices connected)

Thanks for helping!

tame wharf
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Have you tried to reset the Switchbot device?

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Or have a look, if you disabled the device in the integration instead of removing it

idle basin
flint compass
idle basin
shell mural
idle basin
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I have a feeling I may not need any more BT proxies

oblique oak
flint compass
oblique oak
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If you click on the config entry for the esphome device in integrations you can use the download diagnostics option

flint compass
oblique oak
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If it’s a local adapter it will be the diagnostics for the Bluetooth config entry

flint compass
oblique oak
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There isn't anything in there that isn't already floating around in the air so it should be fine to put it in a paste bin

flint compass
oblique oak
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What is the mac address of the one you are trying to set up ?

flint compass
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F4:A5:65:C3:C7:74

oblique oak
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the scanner can see it but the service_data is missing

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do you have the scanner in passive mode?

flint compass
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How can I check it?

oblique oak
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/config/integrations/integration/bluetooth

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click configure

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That will be checked if its passive

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flint compass
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It's ticked for me

oblique oak
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turn it off

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it should be able to find it now

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than onces its configured you can turn it back on

flint compass
atomic moss
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Hi all, I found a second bt usb dongle in a drawer:-) Does it make sense to add that to the setup? Is it an advantage to have 2 bt radio's?

atomic moss
shell mural
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I am hoping the BT or BTLE integration can be made to work

atomic moss
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the Xiaomi BLE integration works fine here

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without anything else, HA found the devices themselves

shell mural
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cool... i will try that out

shell mural
atomic moss
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@shell mural yes

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@shell mural one thing if you flash... don't forget to set "Advertising type" to "MIJA (MiHome)", it defaults to something else

shell mural
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That worked!

atomic moss
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nice

shell mural
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Not working inside the refrigerators and freeze's though... Next step is to setup a BT PRox on an ESPHOME chip. I have been avoiding because I dnt have a 3d printer to make a case

atomic moss
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I have one in the refrigerator, bumped up the RF TX power

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did the same with one on the other side of the house

shell mural
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How did you bump the tx power?

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I need to look at something else for the freezers... These are only good to 32 degrees F

atomic moss
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There is a option, "RF TX POWER"

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on the pvvx flasher

neat magnet
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For devices with bluetooth app control, could I run the app in an emulator/virtual machine on a PC and pair to the device that way?

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I can't find a mention of anyone successfully setting that up

late jasper
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I have some HomeKit Bluetooth devices integrated in HA via HomeKit controller. A device is a bit faraway from my current Bluetooth proxy (which is my HA server) so it no longer update values.

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Can this be improved?

rotund sail
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Well, yes, with the obvious solution

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||Add more proxies||

late jasper
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By adding more proxies do they form a mesh network? And is it something only unique for esphome?

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When searching Bluetooth proxies for home assistant it always shows that with esphome

fallow viper
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no mesh

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They're just all capable of working at the same time. They don't interact with each other.

late jasper
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Then what I can do to increase the range is to find a more powerful Bluetooth adapter to replace the old one? So I can’t just increase the range by simply placing a Bluetooth proxy in the middle?

rotund sail
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The whole point of the proxies is to provide greater reach

fallow viper
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The proxies don't care about each other. They just provide service to the things around them. They connect back over wifi

late jasper
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Okay so in the eye of HA they are still in the same network right? Can I place an usb Bluetooth dongle in the middle to increase the reach? To what should the usb dongle be connected?

rotund sail
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Can I place an usb Bluetooth dongle in the middle to increase the reach
no

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Bluetooth dongle != bluetooth proxy

cosmic raptor
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Esphome uses your lan/wifi as backbone. They don‘t connect to each other and they are no clients, they provide their service to the network and everyone allowed to can connect to them

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A usb bluetooth stick is no proxy