Raspberry Pi/Kodi as a relay

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I think this is the right place for this… Brand new to HA.

I have several Raspberry Pi’s running Kodi v20 [LibreELEC v11] as media players throughout my house. Can I use the Bluetooth and/or a USB stick (for Zigbee/Z-Wave) as a relay for HA? I’m just building out my network and have a hodge-podge of devices that I want to use before I standardize.

I’m running HA 2023.11.3 as a VM on ESXi 8. I have a TubesZB CC2652P2 Based Zigbee to PoE Coordinator in the mail to start building a proper network.

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What do you mean by:

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I have a BLE device near a RPi that I would like to control with HA. Since it has Bluetooth, I would like to use it to send the control commands to the BLE device.

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The Bluetooth Proxy conceptually does what you want, but only ESPHome devices can act as Bluetooth Proxies for HA. I did find this thread that mentions some other thing that uses MQTT to bridge Bluetooth devices, but I have no idea how (or if) it works: