Hello, I've recently migrated from HAOS to HA Container on my NAS setup (due to needing to have direct access to HA logs), and encountered an issue of being unable to use the USB dongle with Bluetooth integration. This is due to host OS, TrueNAS SCALE, not shipping the bluetooth stack, with no plans to.
I was looking to migrate to an esp32 bluetooth proxy, but unfortunately wi-fi reception in the part of the house where the proxy is both needed and possible to place is quite bad.
So I was wondering, is there perhaps some sort of software/docker container that works in a way similar to zigbee2mqtt? Because currently i have the zigbee controller, also a usb device connected to the NAS, attached to the zigbee2mqtt container, which sends device data to HA through mqtt.
So if there is possibly a solution that works in a similar way but for Bluetooth, it would solve my problem entirely.
However, if there are maybe other ways to have reliable bluetooth for my HA container, I would also be grateful for such information.
#Software bluetooth proxy for USB dongle?
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Hi @dense turtle,
I suggest bluetooth proxies with espHome. Works with most of the things.
Otherwise I know about this: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Maybe something is in there
yeah but then I run into wi-fi being too bad where the proxy could get placed, wish there was an esp32 board with ethernet
There are some, they are recommended in that espHome projects post.
bingo! just what I needed