Besides the obvious advantage of enabling Bluetooth capabilities for your Home Assistant interface, an ESP32-powered proxy allows you to control and automate smart devices over a large area.

The PCB holds an ESP32-PICO-D4 which is operating as a standard Bluetooth HID controller for maximum compatibility with modern systems.

Using Bluetooth on a desktop computer is now such a seamless process; it’s something built-in and just works. Behind that ubiquity is a protocol layer called HCI, or Host Controller Interface… ...

How it works is simple: you can track devices using Bluetooth on the ESP32, and through a combination of presence and signal strength, you can define a sensor that changes to an "on" state when ...

In addition to Bluetooth 5 (LE), it also supports short-range wireless communication standards such as Thread and ZigBee . Software for the ESP32-C5 can be developed using the Espressif Systems ...

The new ESP32 combo chip integrates robust wireless interfaces for 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and CEVA's Bluetooth 4.2 dual mode, along with a rich GPIO offering for system flexibility. Designed for ultra-low ...