How to use Bluetooth dongle with pi4 home assistant os

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Hello,

Can someone here give me the cliff notes version for the subject?

In my situation, do I just plug in a supported one and restart the pi4 and all will be running and start using the dongle rather than onboard.

Is the Bluetooth proxy- esphome project-a good option for me or would it be slower or just as slow as current.

I am having 10 second connection times to SwitchBot tilt.

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Hi Weston,

According to what I’ve heard in the HA release streams, the proxy is usually faster that the usb dongle because the logic stack has been optimized for HA and because you can have a proxy closer to the device (more of them) than the usb dongle.

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Thank you for your response. I may give it a go over the weekend and see if it is profitable. Thank you again!!