Help?!? Nothing found, but seems set up right

[Jeppedy]

I'm trying to get Passive BLE Monitor working with Bluetooth Gateway on ESP32s with ESPHome.
I've looked at every article and YouTube I can find.
I'm struggling with "Old Configs" vs "New Configs" and "Use an Automation" vs "Call the action directly in the ESP32 ESPHome Config"

I've got my ESPHome device set up with the BLE Gateway
I've got Passive BLE Monitor running to detect/read Bluetooth

I'm seeing my Bluetooth device found in the ESPHome sensor logs.
But no devices ever show up. Maybe I'm configured wrong, maybe I'm expecting something different.
I'm a techie guy, but have no idea how to debug where things are breaking down, and most instructions on-line only go part of the way, have conflicting information, are out of date, etc.

Also, the Passive BLE Monitor Config screen seems odd. Shouldn't it have a dropdown instead of radio buttons?

Can someone please help point me in the right direction?

Running Home Assistant:
Installation method: Home Assistant OS
Core: 2026.2.3
Supervisor: 2026.02.3
Operating System: 17.1
Frontend: 20260128.6

Passive BLE Monitor: Version 13.11.1

ESPHome Configuration:
substitutions:
name: "btproxy-inside"
friendly_name: BTProxy Inside

esphome:
name: ${name}
name_add_mac_suffix: false
friendly_name: ${friendly_name}

esp32:
board: esp32dev
framework:
type: esp-idf
advanced:
minimum_chip_revision: "3.1"

Enable logging

logger:

Enable Home Assistant API

api:
encryption:
key: !secret encryption_key

ota:

• platform: esphome
  password: !secret ota_pswd

wifi:
ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
password: !secret wifi_password

Enable fallback hotspot (captive portal) in case wifi connection fails

ap:
ssid: "${friendly_name} Fallback Hotspot"
password: !secret ap_pswd

captive_portal:

Enable Bluetooth Proxy

bluetooth_proxy:
active: false

#--------------------------------------

ESPHome Bluetooth GATEWAY Configuration

external_components:

• source: github://myhomeiot/esphome-components

Enable ESP32 BLE Tracker

esp32_ble_tracker:

BLE GW

ble_gateway:
id: blegw01
discovery: false
devices:
- mac_address: !secret ChefIQ-A

on_ble_advertise:
then:
homeassistant.event:
event: esphome.on_ble_advertise
data:
packet: !lambda return packet;

---

ESPHome Log:
[11:52:04.503][D][ble_gateway:071]: [D4:8A:FC:B3:F4:B6] Packet 043E3002010000B6F4B3FC8AD4240709556E6974203202010618FFCD05336D59654D4287D2D1D040E4A25C5ABB6EFAE64C05D9
[11:52:05.133][D][ble_gateway:071]: [D4:8A:FC:B3:F4:B6] Packet 043E3002010000B6F4B3FC8AD4240709556E6974203202010618FFCD05336D59654D4287D2D1D040E4A25C5ABB6EFAE64C05D8
[11:52:07.063][D][ble_gateway:071]: [D4:8A:FC:B3:F4:B6] Packet 043E3002010000B6F4B3FC8AD4240709556E6974203202010618FFCD05336D59654D4287D2D1D040E4A25C5ABB6EFAE64C05D7
[11:52:09.008][D][ble_gateway:071]: [D4:8A:FC:B3:F4:B6] Packet 043E3002010000B6F4B3FC8AD4240709556E6974203202010618FFCD05336D59654D4287D2D1D040E4A25C5ABB6EFAE64C05D8
[11:52:11.572][D][ble_gateway:071]: [D4:8A:FC:B3:F4:B6] Packet 043E3002010000B6F4B3FC8AD4240709556E6974203202010618FFCD05336D59654D4287D2D1D040E4A25C5ABB6EFAE64C05D8
[11:52:13.518][D][ble_gateway:071]: [D4:8A:FC:B3:F4:B6] Packet 043E3002010000B6F4B3FC8AD4240709556E6974203202010618FFCD05336D59654D4287D2D1D040E4A25C5ABB6EFAE64C05D8
[11:52:15.153][D][ble_gateway:071]: [D4:8A:FC:B3:F4:B6] Packet 043E3002010000B6F4B3FC8AD4240709556E6974203202010618FFCD05336D59654D4287D2D1D040E4A25C5ABB6EFAE64C05D8

[Ernst79]

To be honest,I don’t know why it doesn’t work for you. You might get an answer if you also post a message on the forum of the blegateway topic https://community.home-assistant.io/t/esphome-ble-gateway-and-other-ble-components/367935

or raise an issue on the repo of ble-gateway. I see that there is a fix for recent HA versions last week.