HASS addon to Regular Home Assistant

Configuration
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Hi,
I would like to know if we can use Hass addons (like https://github.com/home-assistant/hassio-addons/tree/master/bluetooth_bcm43xx) with a regular Home Assistant installation (via pip install) ? and How ?
Regards,
Loux

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Hass.io add-ons are docker images according to the post:

By “regular” Home Assistant, it seems to me you are not using Docker of any kind, am I correct? If so, there is a Bluetooth LE Tracker component:

Accessing Bluetooth from Home Assistant is usually reserved for root, so you will need to configure Linux to allow unprivileged user such as “hass” to talk to Bluetooth devices.

Here’s another example: If you want to install Samba server, you can do that normally via “sudo apt-get install samba” (no quotes) in Debian/Ubuntu Server.

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If you’re running in normal python environment, there is no need for a Bluetooth container. You already have access to Bluetooth.

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Thank you for your answers.
So in order to activate it, I only need to add:

device_tracker:
  - platform: bluetooth_tracker

into my configuration.yaml and restart hass ?

Regards,
Louis

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Yes. That’s it.

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awesome ! thank you ! I’ll play with it waiting for my zwave stick to come