The Ultimate Guide to Bluetooth in Home Assistant + ESP32 Setup Tutorial

Want to add Bluetooth support to Home Assistant? In this video, I’ll walk you through all the available options and show you step-by-step how to set it up using the best method: an ESP32 Bluetooth Proxy.

Home Assistant's Bluetooth page ➡️ https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/bluetooth/
ESP32 module I use ➡️ https://geni.us/I1QU (Wi-Fi + Bluetooth)
ESPHome Bluetooth Proxy creation page ➡️ https://esphome.io/projects/?type=bluetooth
Required ESP32 USB drivers ➡️ https://www.silabs.com/developer-tools/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers?tab=downloads
ESPHome page ➡️ https://esphome.io/index.html

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Chapters:
00:00 Option 1 - Your hardware already has a Bluetooth chip
01:31 Option 2 - Using a Bluetooth dongle
03:01 Option 3 - Introducing Bluetooth Proxies
03:15 Using Shelly Gen2+ device as Bluetooth Proxies
04:01 Introducing ESP32
05:15 How an ESP32 as a Bluetooth Proxy works
06:34 Creating a Bluetooth Proxy with an ESP32
08:50 Adding the newly created Bluetooth Proxy to Home Assistant
10:10 Adding Bluetooth smart objects to Home Assistant
11:11 BONUS - Going further with the ESPHome addon/container
13:33 Conclusion

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