Bluetooth not working on NUC in HA Docker

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Hi, I recently upgraded my HA setup to NUC via Docker on Ubuntu 18 system. Everything seems to work the way I want it to except Bluetooth device tracker.
I have looked at quite a few threads here and none seem to be able to solve my problem. Not sure what is going on with the NUC.

Here are some of the things which I have tried already.

  • NUC Bluetooth is working absolutely fine, trying the bluetoothctl shows all of my connected devices.
  • HA network is set to host.
  • Tried restarting HA container a few times but the device tracker never comes on.

Following is the error I see in the logs

Error setting up platform bluetooth_tracker
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/app/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/__init__.py", line 183, in async_setup_platform
    disc_info)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 56, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/src/app/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/bluetooth_tracker.py", line 42, in setup_scanner
    import bluetooth
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bluetooth'

Can anyone help me figure out what is wrong with the setup?

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Make sure your image is privledged. This gives it access to everything. Also, on the host system, try installing these:

sudo apt-get install bluetooth bluez libbluetooth-dev libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev

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Any luck sorting this out? Same issue here, sadly.

4

What fo you mean by privileged? I am pulling jh hair bluetooth has stopped working after 0.94.3 for me on docker

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Privledged gives the container more access to the system. This should expose all the hardware on your machine. You can use the --privileged option or add privileged: true to your docker-compose.yaml file.

Some information here that explains it better (LINK).

Here is my docker compose entry for Home Assistant if it helps.

  homeassistant:
    container_name: homeassistant
    image: homeassistant/home-assistant:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    privileged: true
    depends_on:
      - mosquitto
      - nodered
    volumes:
      - /srv/docker/homeassistant/config:/config
      - /srv/docker/homeassistant/db:/db
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
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If you’re using network mode= host that should be all that’s needed since Bluetooth is part of the network stack

7

I already had privileged as true but bluetooth is still not working for me

8

Try installing the bluetooth libraries on the Docker host.

sudo apt install python-bluez bluetooth libbluetooth-dev
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I get this error:

root@nuc:/usr/src/app# apt-get install python-bluez bluetooth libbluetooth-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python-bluez
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apt search bluez

find the appropriate package that looks similar.

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looks like I have already got them installed:

root@nuc:/usr/src/app# apt search bluez
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
bluetooth/now 5.43-2+deb9u1 all [installed,local]
  Bluetooth support

bluez/now 5.43-2+deb9u1 amd64 [installed,local]
  Bluetooth tools and daemons

libbluetooth-dev/now 5.43-2+deb9u1 amd64 [installed,local]
  Development files for using the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth library

libbluetooth3/now 5.43-2+deb9u1 amd64 [installed,local]
  Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
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well, I can say that my bluetooth is working fine inside Docker HA.

have you used any of the bluetoothctl options yet? to make sure your bluetooth is working on the host?

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bluetooth is working fine on the host…here it is:

root@nuc:/usr/src/app# exit
exit
bachoo786@nuc:/srv/docker/homeassistant$ bluetoothctl
Agent registered
[CHG] Device 58:2D:34:32:E1:6F Connected: yes
[CHG] Device 58:2D:34:32:E1:6F Connected: no
[bluetooth]#
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bluetooth inside Docker HA used to work all fine until the 0.94 update. I tried downgrading to 0.93 but it still didnt work.

I cannot work it out if its my NUC which I updated recently (sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade) that has caused problems. Bluetoothctl works fine

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Did you ever make this work?

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Any news on this one?
I have the exact same problem :frowning: