Hi!
I have my Home Assistant in a proxmox vm. I hadn’t bluetooth, so I bought a Sabrent BT-040 which seeing the documentation it says to work without any problem on HA. My problem is that the integration works, but I’m not able to find any of my devices in Home Assistant. I have 2 speakers which work eith bluetooth and I can’t figure out how to integrate them into my HA. Anyone has similar experiences?
Thanks!!
Make sure you introduce your USB dongle through ProxMox to the VM on which HA ist installed. There is an USB-option in the menu for your VM where you can choose which USB device or port from the Host should be passed trough. Once that is done figure out how the USB is connected to your HA VM via the HA shell. Something like
ls /dev/tty*
should give you the path you will need to integrate it into HA (if autodiscovery doesn’t work).
The dongle was introduced like you say and HA finda it and I am able to confugure it, the problem is from this point forward, it is not able to find anything… thanks for your help!
How far apart is the Bluetooth dongle and the Bluetooth devices, and are there obstacles like walls in the way? Bluetooth doesn’t have the greatest range and can be further diminished by walls etc.
I never had much luck using a USB dongle connected to my Home Assistant server. Instead I use a couple of ESPHome Bluetooth Proxy devices located closer to my Bluetooth devices.
The devices when I tried it were next to the usb dongle, and the dongle is connected though a usb extensor… but for the moment I had no luck… I’ll try the ESP proxy just in case. Thanks very much for your help!!
