diff --git a/source/_components/device_tracker.bluetooth_tracker.markdown b/source/_components/device_tracker.bluetooth_tracker.markdown index f8458551586..0a98675fbe9 100644 --- a/source/_components/device_tracker.bluetooth_tracker.markdown +++ b/source/_components/device_tracker.bluetooth_tracker.markdown @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ ha_iot_class: "Local Poll" ha_release: 0.18 --- -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`. +This tracker discovers new devices on boot and tracks bluetooth devices periodically based on interval_seconds value. It is not requiered to pair the devices with eachother! +Devices discovered are stored with 'bt_' as the prefix for device mac address in `known_devices.yaml`.

Requires PyBluez. If you are on raspbian, make sure you first install `bluetooth` and `libbluetooth-dev` by running `sudo apt install bluetooth libbluetooth-dev`