BT problem

Hi,
my problem deals with BT controller in general on Home Assistant (not only this integration):

Logger: custom_components.ble_monitor.bt_helpers
Source: custom_components/ble_monitor/bt_helpers.py:162
Integration: Passive BLE monitor (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 17:48:46 (1 occurrences)
Last logged: 17:48:46

There are no BT controllers present in the system!

How can I activate BT controller? (I’ve a Dongle 3.0 sonoff with Silicon Firmware)
I tried everything but I can’t solve it.
Home Assistant 2023.3.6 works in Virtual Box (windows 10 on miniPC)

Thank you for your help

Gianluca

  1. First of all, the dongle has to work with Windows
  2. ( Not sure about VB, As i use the best for HA, VMWare :wink: ) . however In your VB-Setting you have to look at network ( most likely ) , and as IP-NIC you also have to “Bridge” Bluetooth ( before HA have a chance to “discover it”

PS: Obviously VMWare and VB uses 2 different ways to enabling support for Bluetooth in guests

Thank you, I try immediately

Just realize you use usb-dongle, So it’s under USB-Devices in VB settings you’ll have to enable “sharing” of bluetooth ( sharing or whatever it’s called in VB )

I tried to share Dongle, but it doesn’work.
I really don’t know how to fix it…
I also tried with Python tutorials but I can’t solve it…

Maybe the problem is in VB… HA doesn’t detect HCI0

Does your Virtual-Box settings see the bluetooht-dongle ?

zigbee2mqtt is ok… only BT (ttyusb0) doesn’t work

Yes, I selected the device in USB tab (ITead Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus [100])

is that your bluetooth-dongle ? , or your zigbee

PS: im not sure where you got the idea, that your zigbee dongle supports bluetooth

Bluetooth dongle

I use it also for Z2m

That make sense , are we talking about this device

if, so please direct me to the spec about it’s supported bluetooth version

yes, that is the Dongle, but, please how can I find the version?

It’s a Zigbee dongle, for Zigbee protocol/devices , it does NOT support Bluetooth protocol/devices

Thank you so much. I appreciate your help… I’ll buy a BT USB device…

Yes, as you seems to use Oracle Virtual Box, i think you need a Bluetooth-Dongle, If VB not is capable of using A buildin-bluetooth device on your miniPC

the only thing I don’t really undestand is that BT did’t work also when I used HA on my laptop. But I’ll try to buy a BT dongle

I’ve heard about(read) people who had problems with VB and bluetooth( buildin, but even dongles ) , but obvious some dont … in any case it something that has to be configured in more than 1 place as you are running a virtual environment