Any bluetooth ibeacon "hubs" for tracking devices in home?

Third party integrations
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In short: I have Home Assistant on HassIO on a VM. Due to some strange VM settings, it’s unable to see any bluetooth networks (“OSError: [Errno 97] Address family not supported by protocol”).

So, I’m looking for a third party integration I can use? Some kind of device with Bluetooth that can can connect to HA to trigger presence detection.

Personally, I’d prefer to use Bluetooth presence over the HA app – hubby isn’t a fan of the idea of constant tracking.

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An ESP32 board can act as a bluetooth hub and communicate with HA using the esphome api.

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Another option is:

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Thanks, guys. So ESP32 is the devices, right? Interesting. I know I’ve seen that around, but it looked like a RaspberryPi module… These are independent devices? I’ll definitely have to look a bit more into them.

Thanks!

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I use some Rasperry Pi Zero W distributed around the house with the software room-assistant.

The software publishes to an MQTT topic and I just pick it up in HA with the MQTT room sensor.