Private BLE Device in Home Assistant
private_ble_device
part of Home Assistant since 2023.10
Private BLE Device is an official Home Assistant integration for Device tracker. Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
Facts about this integration
- Compatible with Home Assistant
- yes, official integration
- Connection
- Local, push – Talks to the device on your own network and is told about every change straight away.
- Setup
- in the user interface
- Kind
- Single device
- Installations
- 4,138 (0.6 % of the installations that share statistics)
- Categories
- Device tracker
- Provides
- Device tracker, Sensor
- Maintained by
- @Jc2k
- Python packages
bluetooth-data-tools==1.29.24
Setup
- In Home Assistant open Settings → Devices & services.
- Click "Add integration" and search for Private BLE Device.
- Follow the dialog – it asks for everything the integration needs.
The link goes through my.home-assistant.io and opens the setup dialog in your own instance – no address of ours is involved.
Known issues and fixes
1 open issues and 1 bug fixes in the last twelve months are recorded for Private BLE Device in the Home Assistant issue tracker. If something does not work, update first: the most recent fix shipped with Home Assistant 2026.9.3.
Open
- open Reported problem #168793
Fixed
- fixed in 2026.9.3 Bug fix #181969
Source: the issue tracker of Home Assistant, as of September 16, 2026. The sentences are written by a language model from the titles of the issues; the reports themselves are on GitHub.
Check a specific device for known problems in the product check →
Source of this entry: the official documentation of the integration