It sounds like more recent Shelly devices can work as BT proxies, and of course, nearly anything with a ESPHome-flashed ESP32s. It sounds like there’s some options involving MQTT, but it doesn’t sound like that behaves like the normal BT proxy. What might I be able to install on a RPi, or a PC or a…

To be a true proxy it would have to be tailor made for HA to route the messages to the bluetooth API like the esp bluetooth proxies do. Since esp’s are low cost and working great, I doubt any one took the effort to create (and maintain) something like it on other platforms. I haven’t seen anything l…

Also found this, but it apparently requires an add-on I can’t locate to work as a BT proxy. Would love for this to exist in the HA app: HA Bluetooth Proxy | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A bit of a revival, but I just made something you might want to check out [image] Turn your spare Android phone into an ESPHome bluetooth proxy -- extend/adding bluetooth support to your home assistant! Share your Projects! I built a small Android app that tur…

neat! would you consider trying to get this functionality into the ha companion app? that’d be tremendously useful

What devices work as native HA bluetooth proxies? (ie: seamlessly as ESPHome devices)

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Zen3515 March 12, 2026, 4:12pm 4

A bit of a revival, but I just made something you might want to check out