Intel NUC bluetooth?

[Raoulex]

Hi, run the command inside hass.io, use SSH & Web Terminal or ide add-on

[Spruce]

Hello, I also haven’t been able to get bluetooth on my NUC able to detect any external devices. My setup is:
Home Assistant running in a VM Virtualbox on a NUC5i3RYB

arch	x86_64
chassis	vm
dev	false
docker	true
docker_version	19.03.12
hassio	true
host_os	HassOS 4.16
installation_type	Home Assistant OS
os_name	Linux (Alpine)
os_version	5.4.75

When I run bluetoothcl I get ‘No default controller available’.
/ $ bluetoothctl
Agent registered
[bluetooth]# power on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]# scan on
No default controller available
[bluetooth]# list
[bluetooth]#

The NUC is broadcasting a bluetooth signal that I can see it with MAC address on my Bluetooth Pair app on my phone.
Maybe I don’t understand what a Controller is?
My goal is to use my Home Assistant to track output from bluetooth devices, mainly for temperature and humidity measurements.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you,

[walaj (Jon Waland)]

It would seem the VM doens’t have access to the bluetooth hardware.

what OS are you running the VM in ?

[Spruce]

Hi thanks for responding. It running in Windows 10.

[walaj (Jon Waland)]

Will Bluetooth devices work with HA on a VirtualBox VM under Windows? suggests it wont work.

But have a look at https://askubuntu.com/questions/963424/cant-access-in-built-bluetooth-for-windows-in-virtual-box (the first point - the rest is for windows as as guest)

[FutureTense]

It works for me in VirtualBox Ubuntu guest under Windows

[Spruce]

I followed the 2nd link’s 1st point and confirmed:

• The BIOS / UEFI has Bluetooth enabled: CONFIRMED
• Your host (Ubuntu in this case) detects the Bluetooth correctly: CONFIRMED
• You have tested the Bluetooth with a bluetooth device and can confirm it is working correctly. This 3 points are to avoid issues with the guest that might not be the guest at all.: COMFIRMED with bluetooth headphones.

[Spruce]

Did you have to configure your system after the original setup to get bluetooth working or did it detect bt immediately?. What types of devices is your system detecting?

[walaj (Jon Waland)]

check here - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48279646/bluetoothctl-no-default-controller-available

(maybe the account you are using doesn’t have access to controller…)

[Spruce]

Thanks Jon, I added the bluetooth group and that didn’t work either. I’m going to bite the bullet and by an external bluetooth dongle.
I really appreciate the help you’ve provided though.

[Spruce]

I ended up getting a usb bluetooth dongle and it still didn’t work which told me it’s not the NUC’s inability to pass the bluetooth capacity through to the virtual machine. I found the following post that solved my issues. It got both my internal bluetooth controller working and the USB dongle.

Bluetooth on Oracle VirtualBox?

Virtual Box is supposed to pass the bluetooth thru to your vm from the host. Seems simple to setup you , just go to settings on virtual machine in virtual box and select usb from the column on left then select the usb type that you have from the top then at the bottom right click the + sign to add a filter so it reconnects when you restart your machine. After clicking + select the bluetooth controller name from your host and then it adds it to the empty box with a check mark. Double click the c…

[walaj (Jon Waland)]

good you got it working - hope the dongle wasn’t expensive

[ldavila (Lazaro Davila)]

Hi Mike, this is great information! Thanks so much.

Just wondering if I could bug you with a couple of questions on this…

• would you also have the address / values to call / set favourite positions?

… and how did you happen to find the ones you posted? Is there some kind of scan tool for bluetooth connections?

Thanks for any help you can give me

[bigmike (Mike)]

Hello,
I enabled bluetooth HCI snoop log on my Android phone, opened MotionMount App and move the mount to the front, back, left, right and I activated favourite position few times. Than I load the log in WireShark and dig arround.
Similar to this process:

Reverse Engineering IoT Devices

[nicmae (Nico)]

Hi, With the 2022.8 update taking bluetooth to another level, do you think it would be possible to develop an integration for Vogel’s Motion Mount?

[bigmike (Mike)]

Hello,
unfortunately I am not that skilled yet

[Fillius (Phil)]

I gave up trying to use the NUC Bluetooth and found an alternative.

This isn’t an integration, but a method which works fast and reliable for my Vogel’s Motion Mount is to use an M5 Atom Lite node (about £10 each) with ESPHome as a BluetoothProxy.

I’ve posted my ESPHome yaml here:

Vent-axia Svara (App controlled extractor fan)

Apologies for the delay, I had spent a while writing out a tutorial on how to get going with ESPHome etc. but was unable to finish it. When I came back to it my draft message was gone so I gave up. I’ll make this one brief. I’m using an M5 Stack Atom Lite and here is my ESPHome yaml for it with MACs, PINs and keys partially redacted using “XX”: # Define reusable constants here substitutions: name: "iot-atom-ble-proxy-30XXXX" friendly_name: Bluetooth Proxy 30XXXX tv_mount_mac_address: 34…

[JustAnotherPU]

Hi @Fillius,

I have installed and configured ESPHome with BluehtoothProxy on an M5S Atom Lite, but can’t seem to figure out how to use it with my vogels motionmount, can you please help ?

thanks

[Fillius (Phil)]

Sure, I can give it a go.

How far did you get with it? What problem are you having?

[riiam (Mo Riyami)]

I have follow this step to add the intel bluetooth adapter to be integrated to homeassistant :

1/ make sure its enable from Bios
2 in terminal run:

bluetoothctl

If the Bluetooth hardware is detected, you should see a prompt like:

bluetooth

Then follow the below :
In Home Assistant, go to Settings > Devices & Services > Add Integration.

Search for Bluetooth and follow the on-screen instructions to set it up. If Bluetooth is not listed, you may need to ensure the Bluetooth hardware is properly recognized.