Hi All,
Is there a way to connect a bluetooth keyboard to Home Assistant via a Bluetooth Proxy device?
I think the answer is “no”, but it seems to be very odd to me that there isn’t a way to do this and that I must be missing something obvious.
What is it you’d want the keyboard to be doing? There’d need to be something like a Home Assistant add-on expecting input.
The keyboard would just be providing button/key clicks from the keyboard (e.g. Enter, Up arrow, Down Arrow).
Essentially I’ve got a HTPC remote that I’d like to use as triggers for automation (turning TV on, stereo on, navigation, etc).
If there’s an add-on, that would be great!
I am wondering the same thing.
I have a bluetooth keypad that I use as a remote control. This is connected to a bluetooth dongle directly attached to HA server (with usb extension cable to reduce interference).
It works, but it can’t cover my whole house. I have a few esphome devices around the house with bluetooth_proxy enabled but it doesn’t look like they are passing the bt info to HA.
For whatever it’s worth, the documentation says bluetooth proxy only works for BLE, so probably doesn’t work with classic devices like keyboards.
Anybody has any input?
Hey there, I actually found another solution - USB over IP. I connected my USB 2.4ghz dongle to an old raspberry pi and set up USB over IP host. Then I connected my unRaid server as the client for the USB over IP. I then passed that USB device to my Home Assistant VM, which now acts as if I directly connected the USB dongle to it.
I’m looking to do the same thing. Has anybody found a solution maybe (without requiring anything besides Bluetooth Proxy)?