[Solved] Bluetooth setup going nowhere

Configuration
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Device tracker for bluetooth is doing absolutely nothing. No errors, no states: nothing. Below I’ve described the setup I’ve gone through so far.

I bought a bluetooth adapter, plugged it in to my Ubuntu box, installed via

sudo apt install bluetooth libbluetooth-dev

and checked that it works with

sudo service bluetooth status

and it says “active (running)”.

I then copy and pasted this into my config:

device_tracker:
  - platform: bluetooth_tracker

Reboot: Nothing. No error logs. No device_tracker.xxx in the states. No known_devices.yaml. Zip. Nada. What am I missing?

UPDATE: I checked the details on the packaging of my device again… and it specifically says Bluetooth Low Energy. Oops. I’ve changed my config to bluetooth_le_tracker and now I get error messages that show it’s working. Yay!

2

Perhaps read that part of the docs starting

In some cases it can be that your device is not discovered.

3

I scanned for BT from my phone whilst restarting three times. Though it could also have discovered any of the many other BT devices in my house.