I’m running HA Core on a HP Microserver Gen8 ESXi host. I am trying to pass through a Bluetooth USB adapter to HA, and have tried both front and rear USB ports on the Microserver, but I can’t get the Bluetooth stick to be recognised.
Has anyone successfully used a Bluetooth USB adapter with an HP Microserver, ESXi and HA?
Yes, works for me. I used Free ESXI 7.0 and now 8.0.
Which USB adapter did you use, and did you use the a front or rear USB port on the HP Microserver?
I use a “CSR8510 A10” (see picture in my post)
You get it for about 5 EUR.
I use it on the rear on a usb-hub.
What kind you have in use?
Thanks. For some reason the picture in your previous post isn’t rendering in my browser
(I’ve been trying to use a CSR 4.0 dongle - unsuccessfully so far) - which looks very much like the model you are using. In fact it looks like the same thing ???
Which ESXI Version you use?
CSR 4.0 should be a 8510 Chipset.
Have you SSH activate on Hassio? Maybe you can check via shell with lsusb command.
I’m running ESXI 6.7. I had some problems running v7 and downgraded back to 6.7 (but I don’t remember what the problems were). The ESXI host isn’t recognising the Bluetooth device - i.e. it’s not listed when I try to add a USB device to the HA VM (I’m running HA in a Docker container in a Lubuntu 20.4 VM).
Maybe try the OVA-Image of HASSIO:
That’s what I am using. Could a problem to redirect the usb device to the docker conatiner?!
(7.0+ might have problem with the internal SATA/Raid-Controller of the server. I use a PCIE-Raid-Controller - HPE smart array P420)
I think the problem is that the ESXI host isn’t detecting the hardware, and can’t pass it through to the guest VMs. So it wouldn’t matter which guest VM I choose, it wouldn’t be able to detect the USB device as the host needs to detect it and pass it through?
Ok. Work the BT-Dongle with an other PC (e.g. with Windows)?
Yes the dongle works with my (Windows 10) PC
Strange - no more ideas. Sorry.
lsusb in host shows the dongle?
what does a dmesg | grep blu give?
Have you passed through the usb port to the guest vm where ha is?
lsusb only shows the external USB hard drives connected to the rear USB ports - not the USB dongle.
dmesg | grep blu gives no output