HA is not for the faint of heart! After all that, I figured adding to my automation would be easy! Well, I was using "away" but the state should be "not_home" to "home". Note: If I paired device, it always showed as there?, so never pair device, or completely remove if you do Hcitool scan # Regular BT should work, does you LE device show? Mine did, so forget LE
![mac os docker bluetooth mac os docker bluetooth](https://www.macbartender.com/assets/img/B3gettingstarted/Preferences-Menu_Items.png)
MAC OS DOCKER BLUETOOTH MAC OS X
Note: CLI into your HA installation and run the following hcitool lescan #can you scan for LE? links to everything you need to build a Hackintosh and get macOS Monterey (macOS 12) as well as many earlier versions of Mac OS X running on an unsupported computer - instructions, step-by-step 'how to' guides, and tutorials - in addition to installation videos, lists of compatible computers and parts, and communities for support.
MAC OS DOCKER BLUETOOTH INSTALL
Installed via apt: apt install bluez bluetoothctl bluetooth libbluetooth-dev Getting BT to work in HA/Docker was another story, and I'm not 100% sure what I did, here are my notes, I'll refine next time I have to re-setup my container and can test, but I'm done testing for now! Both my host and guest are able to see BT devices without having to disable one. Interestingly, I was able to just "use Bluetooth" without doing anything! (I love VMWare). There are eight alternatives to GNOME Bluetooth for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iPhone. I switched over to VMWare Workstation as Hyper-V has no USB Passthrough and USBIP wouldn't load for me w/ azure kernel and I didn't want to rebuild kernel. GNOME Bluetooth is described as 'gnome-bluetooth is a fork of bluez-gnome focused on integration with the GNOME desktop environment'. One option is to use PowerShell to just call a WebHook, but I wanted better integration and was planning on adding ZWave + Zigbee so I wanted to get USB PT working. Thought I'd share my notes to maybe help others, the interwebs are littered with HA/BT issues. We are running Qemu inside docker for me.
![mac os docker bluetooth mac os docker bluetooth](https://pienam.github.io/2019/12/16/「Pie-s-Note」Say-Hello-to-Docker-on-Mac/9.png)
Was quicker for me to migrate my entire VM ecosystem to a brand new install of Ubuntu then getting this to work. USB devices are not recognised, a major part of my work requires iPhone connected to device and use it for side loading apps. I realize HA isn't for the faint of heart and I am not using a Rasp Pi and I am using a container inside a VM on a windows host, so I add my own issues, but it was a nightmare getting this to work w/ HA.