When you disconnect, are your Minis able to reconnect without going through pairing again?
Yep, no issues there, they remember my phone no problem. The Homes simply don’t do any more passive scanning.
Do you have any bluetooth speakers? Phones are the ones that initialize connection, so I am not surprised that those work, but connecting to a speaker should be initialized by Google devices and that is what stopped working for me.
It does detect other speakers but only if the speakers on in pairing mode as well.
Just updating. Mine stopped working a while back as well, so I removed the component, but tried again over the weekend, and got it working with the following config.
configuration.yaml
googlehome:
devices:
- host: 192.168.1.9 #Google Home Mini IP
device_types: 2 #Only Tracking BLE Devices
track_alarms: true #To track timers etc for automations
If you add track_devices: false then it doesn’t track anything, including the already “known” devices. Everything just shows as away, which is to be expected I guess.
known_devices.yaml
192_168_1_9_d4_40_d8_b3_0d_da:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac:
name: Mi Band Living Room
picture:
track: true
It’s still auto adding everything that comes into range, so for now I’ll just clear “new” devices manually, until they add a way to disable that.
Interesting.
Are you using a phone or another device that is tracked?
Only my Mi Band. Phone doesn’t support BLE.
Sorry for the late reply…
googlehome component doesn’t exist any more? 
Correct, it was removed in 0.98
It there any replacement solution for that?
Not that I’m aware of.
As Google simply change the undocumented API to made them more safe I want to check if the old integration can be updated … can someone point me to the source code?