Intel NUC bluetooth?

bigmike · January 2, 2018, 5:59pm

Hello,
how can I enable bluetooth on my NUC? I would like to send command to my bluetooth wall motion mount using NodeRed.

Thank you.

bigmike · January 3, 2018, 7:47am

Nobody said its not possible so far… so… I still have a chance that somebody encounter and resolve this problem… Right?

Litrecola · March 22, 2018, 12:37pm

Did you get an answer on this? I’m having the same issue. Bluetooth works on the NUC for me (keyboard, mouse, etc.), but can’t get HA to pull any devices.

bigmike · March 22, 2018, 4:26pm

Hi,
nope

oakbrad · March 23, 2018, 2:23am

I just tried to get this running this weekend and couldn’t get it to work with HassIO. I don’t think it allows for anything but Broadcom chips. My NUC doesn’t have on board BT, I have a Linux compatible dongle.

How are you running HassIO? Mine is in a Docker, so the host OS and my other containers can access the Bluetooth device. Node-Red can see it and I just pass that to HA

bigmike · March 23, 2018, 8:07am

Hi,
I am running just hassio alone with addons (Mosquitto, Influxdb, Grafana, Nodered, AutoSSH, SSH, Samba, mariaDB). My Nodered do not see BT at all as well. As you alreday said, there is support just for Broadcom chips on RaPi so far. I did create ‘Request Feature’ post but it seems like nobody care :-/

bigmike · March 27, 2018, 8:55am

I am wondering… if I stick some USB BT dongle with BCM43xx Bluetooth chipset into NUC, would it work? But I am not sure if such dongles even exists…

anon35356645 · March 27, 2018, 10:46am

me too …, I have a spare pi3, so will use that one, although would prefer a solution for the NUC

bigmike · March 27, 2018, 11:00am

@anon35356645 I have deoployed my RPi for BT puropses as well, but it just doesn’t ‘feel right’ when NUC could do it itselves

anon35356645 · March 27, 2018, 11:14am

Agreed, manage hass on the NUC is already very time consuming, not want an additional machine to look after

berniebl · August 21, 2018, 3:25pm

Has anyone had any luck with Bluetooth on a NUC, especially in a Docker environment?
I have tried the internal bluetooth adapter with no luck, I have also tried a Parani UD100-G03 dongle. With the dongle I was able to get some level of success but for a very short period of time and it seems like the dongle loosed connection within 15 min to the 2 or 3 hour range. Any help would be appreciated.

flamingm0e · August 21, 2018, 5:49pm

Yeah. I don’t run hassio, but bluetooth passes through from my NUC to my Docker containers just fine.

berniebl · August 21, 2018, 5:55pm

I don’t have hass.io either, I just realized that it was in the Hass.io category after I posted.
Can you assist answering these questions?

Are you using the integrated bluetooth adapter? If not, what are you using?
what /tty is your bluetooth connected to if applicable.
Any other bluetooth drivers you had to install? Did you have to do any device pairing?
Or did it work straight out of the box?

flamingm0e · August 22, 2018, 4:16am

Yep

Bluetooth is a network adapter. You don’t have to pass any bind mounts through. Just use net=host and it will show up. Just enable Bluetooth device tracker and it will work.

Gruz · August 26, 2019, 7:33am

For what it’s worth - I thought I’d pass on my NUC bluetooth success here.

I’m using Hassio (Intel_Nuc image as provided here - https://www.home-assistant.io/hassio/installation/)

I disabled the NUC bluetooth in the bios and plugged in a Targus Bluetooth 4.0 Dual Mode Micro USB Adaptor Model No ACB75A. I was able to use it as a Bluetooth Tracker straight away as per this - https://www.home-assistant.io/components/bluetooth_tracker/. Literally plug and play (one reboot).

Wondering if anyone has managed to get a Flic Server or some integration with Tile Pro going with bluetooth on a NUC?

Raoulex · September 14, 2019, 2:54pm

Hello, use this tutorial, it works on NUC and rpi

Regarding this topic, has anyone succesfully integrated motionmount?

Thanks

bigmike · September 14, 2019, 3:13pm

Hello I am controlling Vogel’s MotionMount via NodeRed running RPi.

hassio switch sends mqtt message
NodeRed will receive it and will run gatttol command which move my mount.

Raoulex · September 14, 2019, 4:46pm

Dear Mike, could you please share the mqqt message and maybe a quick how to in node red ,to get things going. Right now i am not using node red, just plain yaml scripts and automations.

Thank you

bigmike · September 14, 2019, 6:01pm

Hello,
mqtt message is there just to trigger NodeRed exec node which run gatttool command so it can be anything you like. More important is gatttool command arguments:
sudo gatttool -i hci0 -b XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX --char-write-req -a yyyyyy -n zzzzzz

XX - Mount’s MAC address
yyyyyy can be:
0x0012 for back and forth movements
0x0015 for left and right movements
0x0056 for combination of movements

zzzzzz can be:
for 0x0012 - from 0000 to 0064 (from wall to full extend)
for 0x0015 - from 0000 to 0064 (from wall to full left) or from 0000 to ff9c (from wall to full right)
for 0x0056 - combination of all e.g. 0064ff9c (full extend and full right)

So my typical watching position is:
sudo gatttool -i hci0 -b XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX --char-write-req -a 0x0056 -n 0062ffbf

Here is a nice tutorial for HA + NodeRed:

Good Luck!

uiguy · January 20, 2020, 4:40pm

Hi, this does not work on NUC, when you type in bluetoothctl you get command not found…