I am seeing the same root-related error as @dv8ed and no BLE devices in my known_devices.yaml.
The commands I ran to get this far are:
sudo apt-get install libboost-python-dev (as user pi)
sudo apt-get install libboost-thread-dev (as user pi)
sudo su -s /bin/bash hass
source /srv/hass/hass_venv/bin/activate
pip install gattlib
Command 1 and 2 were necessary to stop errors while running command 5. Anything else may have been covered by the work I did to get the regular Bluetooth tracker up and running a while ago (an awesome tracker btw!).
Hmmm I seem to have noticed some side effects, caused by either the Bluetooth LE tracker actually working or by executing sudo setcap cap_net_raw+eip /srv/hass/hass_venv/bin/python3:
loading HASS UI became alot slower
toggling switches was only effective after 10-15 seconds (e.g. switching off a light), same with executing a script
my HASS log file got spammed with connection errors and timeouts (AsusWRT and Chromecast components)
automations were randomly no longer triggering
I tried restarting HASS and also my RPi 3 several times, to no avail. Finally I ran the command sudo setcap -r /srv/hass/hass_venv/bin/python3 to undo the command above, and I rebooted my RPi 3 once more. Since then I’ve noticed the following so far:
HASS UI is fast once again
connection errors and timeouts in the log are gone
the root-related errors in the log because of the BLE tracker are back (obviously)
When I have more time, I may test more to see if I can confirm the theory. But right now, it’s bedtime for me.
Run sudo apt install pkg-config libboost-python-dev libboost-thread-dev libbluetooth-dev libglib2.0-dev python-dev which is all the dependencies needed to have gattlib installed.
Then I ran pip download gattlib tar xvzf ./gattlib-0.20150805.tar.gz cd gattlib-0.20150805/ sed -ie 's/boost_python-py34/boost_python-py35/' setup.py pip install .
from @AlucardZero above, worked on Ubuntu 16.04 with Python 3.5.
So this post really helped me out as I was able to get ble tracking working and saw entries in known_devices.yaml. I live next to a school, I have a guest wireless portal that appears to be a unsecured wireless network, loads of parents decide they’re going to connect. My unifi device tracker was set to track new devices and I forgot to disable that… So yeah. I wiped out all the entries and restarted to regenerate the known_devices.yaml entries, and now nothing.
I’ve tried wiping out gattlib and reinstalling, nope. I can see devices when I do a hcitool lescan. I’ve turned on debug logging on homeassistant.components.device_tracker and just keep the following on restart/reboot:
❨~❩$─► grep -i bluetooth ~/.homeassistant/home-assistant.log
16-09-22 17:56:55 homeassistant.loader: Loaded device_tracker.bluetooth_le_tracker from homeassistant.components.device_tracker.bluetooth_le_tracker
16-09-22 17:59:15 homeassistant.components.device_tracker.bluetooth_le_tracker: No Bluetooth LE devices to track!
16-09-22 17:59:15 homeassistant.components.device_tracker: Error setting up platform bluetooth_le_tracker
RPI3 w/ AIO installer… Does anyone have any idea what I can check or really any troubleshooting tips I can try? Has anyone experienced this before? I’m at a loss.
Are you talking/asking about the performance issues after running that command and using the BLE tracker? If so, then no: last time I checked, those issues still exist. The only “fix” is not using the BLE tracker, which is causing the performance issues. Running that command itself without the use of the BLE tracker hasn’t caused any issues for me.
Yep, using a Raspberry Pi 3 and the built-in Bluetooth chip.
EDIT: the documentation for the Bluetooth LE tracker seems to have been updated, so based on that I just ran sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip /srv/hass/hass_venv/bin/python3. After that, I added the tracker to my HASS config and restarted HASS. Unfortunately, the performance issues are back sighs
For me it seems like the performance are related to how much HA should handle.
I have a server running HA which has alot of entities and it has a performance issue when BLE tracker is added.
While my RPI2 with USB BLE that I’m using for testing purpose and it has no problem with performance when BLE tracker is added.
