Bluetooth Tracker with proxy to detect phones presence

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Hello,
I made a ESPHome bluetooth proxy beacuse my Hassio is installed in Vmware enviroment so I cannot connect a Bluetooth directly.

The board work fine.
Now I want to detect when arrive in my office but I do not want the home assistant APP.

I cannot track the BLE mac address of my phones because is random.
I think I can track the NORMAL bluetooth MAC Address but I don’t understand if ESP Bluetooth proxy can act a Device tracker for bluetooth devices (not BLE).

Any Idea on how to make it ?

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I have the same question.
Can we use bluetooth proxy (on ESP32 device) for tracking smartphone ?
On my side, it only detect BLE devices but not my iphone or android.

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I believe one way to do this is using the HomeAssistant app and changing the “BLE Transmitter” setting.
In the app: Settings > Companion App > Manage Sensors > Bluetooth Sensors > BLE Transmitter.

I have been chasing this problem myself but just discovered it and haven’t tested it fully yet. YMMV.