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/integra... ESP32 module I use ➡️ https://geni.us/I1QU (Wi-Fi + Bluetooth) ESPHome Bluetooth Proxy creation page ➡️ https://esphome.io/projects/?type=blu... Required ESP32 USB drivers ➡️ https://www.silabs.com/developer-tool... ESPHome page ➡️ https://esphome.io/index.html 🛍️ Find my smart home setup and buying guides here ➡ https://plassonade.notion.site/stack Follow me on my other socials for exclusive Smart Home content: Instagram ➡   / plassonade   TikTok ➡   / plassonade   X ➡ https://x.com/plassonade Threads ➡ https://www.threads.com/@plassonade Facebook ➡   / plassonade   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