Can Google Home be used as a Bluetooth presence detector?

[FutureTense]

I have a GH Mini near my garage. I was wondering if there was a way to use that in conjunction with HA to detect my vehicles Bluetooth connection

[Tinkerer (aka DubhAd on GitHub)]

Not currently, but there was somebody (not HA related) exploring the undocumented API and had found signs that it could be used to scan for Bluetooth devices.

[forums2012]

Check out:

New Google Home device tracker Component - Introduced in HA 0.83

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