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.

While it might not be the most traditional design, there’s no debating that Nintendo created something truly special when they unleashed the GameCube controller on an unsuspecting world back in 2001.

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 ...

The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains undocumented commands that could be leveraged for attacks.