Have this happen too, with a new host for my setup (which has build-in Bluetooth).
Looked up the UUID (under the attributes in H.A), then used this database
It’s says it’s a Minew_Beacon, but I don’t have anything by this manufacturing, neighbour? or in some other device? (I have some old Tiles?)
I also suspect this beacon ID belongs to some neighbor or stranger walking around my house.
The problem is that this ID was added automatically as MY tracking device which is dangerous (my security alarm could have been unlocked)…I use an USB BT adaptor + 1 BT ESPHome proxy for tracking.
Yes, I’ve confirmed this has to be from a neighbors house. I all of a sudden found a Bluetooth lightbulb, which I definitely do not have in my house.
Gesh this integration popped up out of the blue and spooked me!
Will the iBeacon Tracker show a list of devices or will it always remain blank in HA? (Anyone have screenshots of it actually being used?).
I have no clue if there is now a tracker somewhere in my house I am unaware of…
A lot of stuff can show up as trackers…we have some Govee thermometers that popped up as trackers took me a long time to work out. Also I’ve caught what I think are tablets/pens from delivery drivers, apple-pencils and fobs from what I suspect are people walking by, and other assorted things.
I had to find a phone-app for BLE beacon scanning and hunt the house to figure some of them out. Others were only around briefly then never seen again.
I also have random LED bulbs show up for no apparent reason…maybe neighbors or maybe someone with LED lighting in their car or something.
I had the same experience, a mysterious iBeacon and in this case it turned out to be my Tesla M3. It appears in Home Assistant is like this:
Name: Sa97968b6a5e7ea65c
Vendor: Shanghai Rui Rui Communication Technology Co.Ltd.
I have disabled newly detected trackers in System Options of the iBeacon integration to prevent collecting strangers iBeacons.
Hi all, does anyone know how to clear all of the detected devices?
came here to say the same thing… mine is the bluetooth key with my phone.
How can one now add new devices with the automatic add disabled?
Will they pop up as „new discovered devices“ (persistent notification)? Or only shown once I manually try to add a new iBeacon tracker integration?
I limit the devices via mac addresses in known_devices.yaml
I mostly don’t use that deprecated file anymore. Last touched in May this year. I disabled the “enable newly added entities” switch, so now:
Which is kind of OK for me. Would love to have even more control about the devices because strangers’ devices can now still fill my device list in the iBeacon Tracker integration. So now I have to check that list and disable undesired devices every now and then - which is OK but not perfect.
I had the same thing happen to me. It turned out to be my water meter.
Finally took the time to look at mine and had over 300 BLE devices showing up. We live full time in an RV and travel a lot. We are next to new people all the time and obviously Home Assistant was collecting souvenirs along the way. Just spent the last hour manually deleting all the devices. I wish they had a bulk delete on devices like they do on entities. Now I turned off auto add.
Like everyone here, I too had this pop up and cause bit of a spook since I was not expecting it. This happened at precisely the exact moment an Amazon delivery got dropped off, after a week on a fresh new install (I’m totally new to HA, what a delight), so I suspect it was like some sort of scanner the drivers carry for packages etc. After finding this thread I added the iBeacon integration to try and see what it was, with no devices or entities added, so again, I suspect it was something that driver had on him, which was gone by the time I tried to add it so nothing to add. Probably worth noting for everyone that someone walking by outside can prior trigger this, and more than likely not a concern (once you disable the option for auto-enabling new entities).
I had this integration pop up a couple of times and wondered what it was which led me here. I downloaded light blue and I have dozens of devices. Can I actually set some of these up for proximity detection? Seems like it could be useful but I don’t know.
I too noticed this new iBeacon Tracker show up on my HA when I enabled the BLE Transmitter option in the HA Companion App - and I only see it when I am in the room with (or near 20 or so feet) to the HA system host (which does have BT installed and enabled).
When I enabled the BT, it did create the known_devices.yaml file and that thing grew to over 300 entries. Many of them had no identifier as to what they are. Some did identify (my SmartWatch, the TV, the TV Soundbar, the Fridge) - and I named them accordingly in the the known_devices file.
This iBeacon is only showing 1 device (and only when I am ‘near’ my HA host - and I am assuming that it is my Google Pixel 6 Pro, which I have learned randomizes the MAC. However it is showing it by a UUID.
How do I add this to my known_devices with the UUID so that it will be known?
vesta:
name: Vesta SmartWatch
mac: BLE_78:02:B7:30:35:07
icon: mdi:watch
picture:
track: true
I get this one - it is a MAC Address, but how do I do the same for the UUID of my phone 9a5a1e1a-739d-4b7e-b01b-85307bbc0f90
**Also is there any other way to identify what is being found? Many of them show ‘home’ in the Developer Tools - but no idea what they are.
Thanks for this, I had a strong suspicion, now confirmed!!
Well, uhm, this is awkward because I don’t have Bluetooth on my HA device so… how would that explain what I am seeing?
This is an old thread with discussions along the way. So what would explain what? What are you seeing exactly? Where’s the problem? Logs? Screenshots? What other devices in your HA environment have bluetooth? Do you do ESPhome at all?
Provide some context, or even open a new thread, so that people who want to help would know where to start / what you are talking about.