Hassos on Intel Nuc6 - ESXI 6.7u3 - Problem Bluetooth

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Good morning everyone.
I have safely installed esxi 6.7u3 on my intel nuc6. :sunglasses:

But I can’t to see the integrated bluetooth that with other virtualization platforms (like Proxmox) I can see (usb passtrouth 8087: 07) :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

Can you help me to understand how to integrate it?

thanks to who helps me.

Daniele

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I have an Intel NUC8 running ESXi 7.0.0. I have a VM running hassos and I’m able to passthrough the onboard Bluetooth as a USB Device without issue.

All I needed to do was Edit the VM Settings, select Add Other Device, USB Device then select it from the list:

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Hi.
My onli usb device is:
intel product 0x0a2b

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I think that’s it. Mine appears as that too:

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I try to insert it, but inside HA not work

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Did you try rebooting the hassos vm?

How are you intending to use Bluetooth in HA? As a Bluetooth tracker?

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I used the bluetooth of the old raspberry as a control with the xiaomi bt temperature and humidity sensor

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Is there anything in the ha logs?

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In my HA logs there isn’t any info about bt…
Is there any commands for testing th Bluetooth scan? It’s important to try bt functionally before…

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There are tools like hcitool, but you’ll need to ssh onto the hassos level for that.

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This command not found in Hassos OS…

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You need to go lower. You’re at the hassos layer, you need the host layer beneath:

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It’s very difficult for me… :sob:

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I would suggest setting up the bluetooth_tracker integration, adding it to the logger with the logging level of debug and seeing what you get in the logs.

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Updating thread in case more people end up here after with a hope of getting the combination NUC8, ESXi, HassOS and native/other BT working. It was my highest rated search result when looking for a solution. WhimsySpoon got it working, I couldn’t.

WhimsySpoon was kind enough to supply me his exact VM configuration as I was wondering if there could be some tiny detail making the difference (thanks!). I could unfortunately not replicate his positive results despite using identical configuration. I assume it might be due to hardware/firmware differences.

I’m running a NUC8i5BEK which present the native BT USB device as 0x0aaa in ESXi. WhimsySpoon is running a NUC8i7HNK which present the native BT USB device as 0x0a2b in ESXi.

(I ended up setting up passthrough of the native BT device to a Linux VM on the same ESXi host as that works fine. BT is handled by the Linux server and passed on to HA through MQTT.)

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