Cool, thanks for the links. Are you using a Pi 3B or a 3B+ (so the newest model)? I was hoping to use the onboard bluetooth instead of another device.
I’m using a 3B. The ESP8266’s are pretty inexpensive and work well. I ended up adding one to control my garage doors. It also uses MQTT to communicate with HA.
I have my doubts about this. 3B+ has another chipset for WiFi/Bluetooth Cypress CYW43455 SoC, which is different from Broadcom (BCM) model used on 3B.
http://www.cypress.com/news/cypress-delivers-robust-wireless-connectivity-raspberry-pi-3-model-b-iot-single-board-computer
I’m using HassIO and unable to use bluetooth tracker and plant sensor using my 3B+
Are there new information to this? I think, I’ve got the same problem.
Some more information to this:
I got no results when executing hcitool scan.
But I got multiple results when executing:
bluetoothctl
agent on
scan on
scivision says, that when this happens:
If the second way finds devcies but not the first, you may have a chipset issue. I have noted this with Marvell hardware on Ubuntu 18.04. I did not look into a resolve for this, as I usually use other hardware.
So maybe, there is a problem with the chipset driver on the 3 B+ ?