HA - RPI 3+ - Bluetooth not seeing iPhone?

Configuration
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Hey,

Setup: Home Assistant on RPI 3+. HA Core 0.104.3 and OS 3.7.

Trying to set up bluetooth as device tracker. HA has found my wife’s Android phone, but what it has not managed to find is my iPhone SE.

Per the Hass.io website, I’ve used this code in my configuration.yaml:

device_tracker:
- platform: bluetooth_tracker

I have received the following error message:
“See service not supported by [my iPhone name]”.

What am I doing wrong?

I am using the HA app on the iPhone. From what I can read, my issue may have something to do with this?

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Maybe your spacing is wrong. Here is mine. The spacing is 2 characters over on the “-“


  - platform: bluetooth_tracker
    interval_seconds: 15
    consider_home: 150
    track_new_devices: yes
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But the tracker identifies other Bluetooth devices, and as I understand, there should only be one bluetooth_tracker platform?, so it seems to functioning properly?

Just somehow now seeing my iPhone?

4

Ok so you have it working correctly. I find that my iPhone BT works fine but I cannot pick up my wife’s iPhone so maybe there some phones it just cannot see.

5

Are you using the HA app on the iPhone that it can pick up?

The most annoying part is that the only device needed to see is my iPhone. I’ve tried the “ping” approach for presence detection, but the iPhone deactivates wifi when not in use, so I’m “away” often when I’m home… Funny thing is that the wifi on my wife’s Android seems to be active constantly.

As such, it seems that my best option was to use bluetooth (I do not have external access, so GPS isn’t possible).

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Yes HA is on my iPhone but not on my wife’s. That should not be a reason why I cannot pick her phone up, my known_devices.yaml is full of my neighbours iPhones and they definitely don’t have HA on their phones :laughing:

7

Oh no, I meant if the app might have something to do with the device not being seen :slight_smile:

8

I would say not - it picks up my phone before I even get on the home Wi-Fi. Just toggled aircraft mode on my wife’s phone and there is no change.

9

Decided to just try and see what happened if I deleted my iphone as a device in HA… And it worked. My phone was immediately picked up via bluetooth. It does however seem to have created some (so far) non-essential errors in the app.

Now the next step is to see if I can add the phone via the app again without loosing bluetooth…

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did you ever get this to work?