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.

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… ...

However, nearly every ESP32 device can at least do Bluetooth Low Energy, allowing them to capture data from a wide range of ...