Bluetooth integration adds just bluetooth adapter

[and7ey]

The problem

Bluetooth integration adds just bluetooth adapter, no other devices are discovered.
Tried both with bluetooth: added to configuration.yaml and without this part.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2022.9.6

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Supervised

Integration causing the issue

bluetooth

Link to integration documentation on our website

No response

Diagnostics information

config_entry-bluetooth-4d02788e3b0deddc395793e79af15632.json.txt

Example YAML snippet

No response

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

A message handler raised an exception: 'org.bluez.Device1'. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dbus_fast/message_bus.py", line 736, in _process_message result = handler(msg) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bleak/backends/bluezdbus/manager.py", line 804, in _parse_msg condition_callback() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/bleak/backends/bluezdbus/manager.py", line 664, in callback self._properties[device_path][defs.DEVICE_INTERFACE][property_name] KeyError: 'org.bluez.Device1'

Additional information

Raspberry Pi 3b, built-in bluetooth-adapter, HAOS
bluetoothctl works well, multiple devices are found

[and7ey]

Something similar is described here - #76914, but I use the latest release and the problem is still there. Reboot doesn't help.

[homeassistant]

Hey there @bdraco, mind taking a look at this issue as it has been labeled with an integration (bluetooth) you are listed as a code owner for? Thanks!
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[kloemi]

Same here, fresh installation of latest release on pi 400, using balena etcher.
config_entry-bluetooth-4d02788e3b0deddc395793e79af15632.json.txt
No device is shown, only the bt adapter

[bdraco]

Which integration provides support for the device you are expecting to be found that is missing?

[kloemi]

I'd like to use BT for device_tracker and was expecting to find entities at devices&services>bluetooth. But there shows up the device only and no entity.

I'm new at HA if that is a configuration issue maybe you have a hint.

[and7ey]

I wanted to see full list of Bluetooth devices and later to use it with SP110E - roslovets/SP110E-HASS#6

[bdraco]

The bluetooth integration offers way for integrations to access the bluetooth stack. Each device needs its own integration.

[kloemi]

At my case ist was an issue with the device tracker configuration. Thx for you reply. After copying a full configuration the known_devices was created, and entities exist.

[and7ey]

@kloemi could you please describe in details what you did?

[groenmarsmannetje]

The main problem here is that the documentation of the Bluetooth integration is lagging good explanation about what it is and how it is expected to work from end-user perspective. Also taking in mind that it follows a different approach compared to other integrations. For instance network router integrations show device tracker entities of connected devices as part of that integration and an integration like IKEA Tradfri will show all devices that are connected to the IKEA hub. So it is not strange that something like that is also what users would expect from the Bluetooth integration. This requires more explanation.

A reference to all related integrations that make use/depend on this integration could also help.

Also the Bluetooth tracker documentation doesn’t mention anything about this. For that integration we need to guess or assume that it does or doesn’t make use of this new Bluetooth integration. It is really very confusing.

[kloemi]

Im fully ack with your comment @groenmarsmannetje. For me as newby my expectation was to see anything happen. Bluetooth was installed per default, then i tried to add bluetooth tracker via gui. There was the hint to edit the configuration. But with sample from bt tracker documentation I did not get it working. My expectation was to see afterwards a new entitie or at least known_devices. But nothing happened. At the end i copied a configuration snipped from a forum entry. So behaviour was kind of different then with integrations.

[and7ey]

then i tried to add bluetooth tracker via gui.

could you please clarify how you tried to do that? I don't use UI and edit everything thru configuration.yaml. How should I add devices in such case?

At the end i copied a configuration snipped from a forum entry.

could you please share the link or paste the configuration here?

[groenmarsmannetje]

I disabled the Bluetooth Device tracker because it was no longer working after one of the HA releases a couple of months back in which almost all existing Bluetooth integrations broke. As far as I know the Bluetooth Device Tracker is stil not migrated to the new Bluetooth solution. Which wonders me… why would you keep an integration that doesn’t work anymore.

But do not shoot me on that because I also have trouble to understand how this is all currently working or not working. A lot of people seem to be busy with it and the HA Core team is celebrating constantly on new BT stuff that they introduced in last couple of releases… but it seems to me that they have forgotten that they broke something which has not been repaired yet. They are certainly not following a fix first and enhance later strategy.

[friedpenguin]

If you are using a Supervisor install (Advanced, not HA OS) you need to make sure to enable dbus-broker as per the documentation. I chased my tail a while trying to find that when it's right in the documentation. And don't forget to reboot.
https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker

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