-Requires gattlib, which is not compatible with windows. This tracker won’t work on windows!
+Requires gattlib, which is not compatible with Windows. This tracker won’t work on Windows!
To use the Bluetooth tracker in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:
@@ -112,7 +112,9 @@ Requires gattlib, which is not compatible with windows. This tracker won’t wor
As some BT LE devices change their MAC address regularly, a new device is only discovered when it has been seen 5 times.
Some BTLE devices (e.g. fitness trackers) are only visible to the devices that they are paired with. In this case, the BTLE tracker won’t see this device.
-BTLE tracking requires root privileges.
+
+BT LE tracking requires root privileges.
+
For running Home Assistant as non root user we can give python3 the missing capabilities to access the bluetooth stack. Quite like setting the setuid bit (see Stack Exchange for more information).
@@ -121,7 +123,8 @@ Some BTLE devices (e.g. fitness trackers) are only visible to the devices that t
-If you have installed HA with AIO, you need to do the following command, this will grant acess to hass to run the required command
+If you have installed Home Assistant with AIO, you need to do the following command, this will grant access to Home Assistant to run the required command.
+$ sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip /srv/hass/hass_venv/bin/python3
home-assistant.io is built using Jekyll and these available dependencies. The pages are written in markdown. To add a page, you don’t need to know about HTML.
-You can use the “Edit this page on GitHub” link to edit pages without creating a fork.
+You can use the “Edit this page on GitHub” link to edit pages without creating a fork. Keep in mind that you can’t upload images while working this way.
For larger changes, we suggest that you clone the website repository. This way, you can review your changes locally. The process for working on the website is no different from working on Home Assistant itself. You work on your change and propose it via a pull request.
diff --git a/sitemap.xml b/sitemap.xml index 5e4d22f44b..1adec65d52 100644 --- a/sitemap.xml +++ b/sitemap.xml @@ -2309,62 +2309,62 @@