r/homeassistant • u/messr • 17h ago

Support Bermuda - no USB Bluetooth Dongle question

I have set up Bermuda using three ESP32 wifi Bluetooth proxies. I haven't calibrated it or anything yet but generally gets the areas right despite going 'unknown' from time to time. It's an excellent bit of kit!

I noticed that the documentation says to have a usb Bluetooth dongle but when I initially set it up with this it wasn't working properly so I removed and started again.

Are there any downsides to not having a Bluetooth dongle given this is specified as a requirement in the documentation? I run HA bare metal on a HP thin client.

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u/kaeles 9h ago

No, the bt proxies work the same as having a USB dongle.

Or specifically, they provide the same functionality, the bt dongle is just to allow the ha hardware itself to have bt, but you don't need it to get it to work the same.

My ha is on a vm, so I don't bother with any hardware attached to it at all.