Help with Bluetooth

[FloatingBoater (James Derrick)]

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Bluetooth Dongle (added) how to scan for devices?

Bluetooth is a family of protocols, which can make it confusing. Automation almost always uses Bluetooth Low Energy BTLE which is very different from Bluetooth Audio (which has several profiles itself just to be even more confusing…). The recent development work makes connecting software to Bluetooth easier, however this is currently for Bluetooth Low Energy devices. BTLE often works by broadcasting one-to-many without pairing - like shouting “I’m a thermostat and it is 20C” reguarly. That’s …

Raspberry Pi Bluetooth

First, to help you, we need you to help us understand your hardware and software Which Raspberry Pi are you using? (All RPi3 and RPi4 have Bluetooth EXCEPT many CM4) How did you install HASS? Did you use a HASS OS image? The Bluetooth integration should offer to install itself automatically with HASSOS >~8 on a RPi >=3. Settings → Devices & Services → Bluetooth should show the integration, with likely one device (hc0 - the adapter itself). After that, it’s pretty much automatic - mine picked…