GDO blaQ - Bluetooth Proxy?

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Hey there, can I enable Bluetooth Proxy on the ‘blaQ’, like you can with other ESP32/ESPHome based devices?

Here’s an example of this on an Apollo Automation device (also ESP32/ESPHome):

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Yes, you can, If you are managing your ESPHome config yourself via ESPHome device builder.

Curious, what is your use case for Bluetooth proxy?

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A lot of SwitchBot (and other) devices are Bluetooth only, and in larger homes, it can be difficult to get everything close to your HA server’s own bluetooth.

Since ESP32s and ESPHome is so prolific around the house now, you can just have the bluetooth device connect to a more local ESP32 device as a proxy instead. Additionally, you can enable BLE tracking, so ultimately you can do indoor tracking of people if you wanted.

So I can just add the following under wifi:

  power_save_mode: LIGHT

And the following under its own section:

bluetooth_proxy:
  active: true
esp32_ble_tracker:
  scan_parameters:
    active: true

If I want to enable both?

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I really don’t know, I haven’t experimented with this capability yet.
Here’s the ESPHome documentation for bluetooth proxy.

Let us know how it works out or what issues you run into.

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I’ll give it a shot! Thank you!