Hi community
Are their any suggestions for a Bluetooth stick or similar things how I can get bluetooth for my Yellow which arrives in a few days?
Hi community
Are their any suggestions for a Bluetooth stick or similar things how I can get bluetooth for my Yellow which arrives in a few days?
@xXkr13g3rXx did you ever get this sorted?
I have a Standard HA Yellow also, it does not come with a Bluetooth module.
From some quick research, it would either need the CM4 replaced with a different CM4 model that has Bluetooth or a USB adapter or some sort?
My understanding is that bluetooth and Wifi are interfering with Zigbee if antennas are too close. That must be the reason why Yellow comes without bluetooth.
My guess, and please stop me if Iām wrong, would that that you can put a bluetooth stick on a cable, away from the box, so it would not interfere.
Would that work ?
Bluetooth and WiFi use the same 2.4Ghz frequency band, but they can work together. Mobile phone use both a lot and it works.
The USB3 ports have been causing problems for 2.4Ghz though, so an extension cable is recommended, if not required.
The link I provided to the Bluetooth section have a good run over of many of the sticks/chips out there and there are some that are recommended for HA.
I have a pretty old dongle that Iām using in my yellow that works pretty well. I had to disable the one in the CM4 since it was very unstable.
I was thinking to try a newer one with a 5.3 chipset but Iām reading people are having issues getting them working.
Anyone got one working on the yellow recently?
I install a CM4 with the onboard bluetooth on Homeassistant Yellow kit, how to enable the onboard bluetooth? Any ideas?