home-assistant.github.io/source/_components/device_tracker.bluetooth_tracker.markdown

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This tracker discovers new devices on boot and tracks bluetooth devices periodically based on interval_seconds value. Devices discovered are stored with 'bt_' as the prefix for device mac in known_devices.yaml.

Requires PyBluez

To use the Bluetooth tracker in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

device_tracker:
  platform: bluetooth_tracker

For additional configuration variables check the Device tracker page.