Bluetooth Dongle issues

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi,

Looking for some help. I recently set up a home assistant server & have had nothing but issues trying to get bluetooth up & running. I think originally it was the dongle I was using so I purchased a new one that is on the approved list I’m using the UGreen CM390. I have tried this today after updating to the latest version of Home Assistant OS with no joy. The intigration show’s up but with the message “Retrying setup: Failed to start Bluetooth: adapter ‘hci0’ not found”.

The VM itself is running on a Dell 3040 with windows 10. I have HAOS running within a VM using Oracle Virtual Box as per the official guide & I set up the bluetooth USB the same as the Conbee & have included a screenshot below. As per a suggestiong I saw elsewhere I have turned off the machines main onboard bluetooth & disabled the bluetooth dongle within device manager but it seems to have made no difference.

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Any help would be greatly appreciated as I’ve been tryig to get bluetooth working for weeks now & it’s just going nowhere.

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Yeah I have the ZEXMTE BT-505 supported dongle and get the exact same error after a reboot on my dedicated pc running HA OS.

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I managed to resolve it by pulling the dongle & reinserting with the PC up & running along with the VM. I then restarted the VM for good measure.

I was mostly just messing around & seemed to get it to work.