proxmox-bluetooth - Share host Bluetooth with Proxmox VMs over network
Show HN: Proxmox -> Share your host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network
proxmox-bluetooth solves the frustrating issue of Bluetooth passthrough failures in Proxmox Linux VMs, especially with Intel onboard chips like BE200 and AX210. Instead of unreliable USB passthrough, this tool creates a network bridge to share the host's Bluetooth adapter directly with guests like ChimeraOS, Bazzite, or Home Assistant. Installation requires just two simple commands, enabling seamless pairing of Xbox controllers, headphones, and sensors with negligible latency. It works with any chip supported by Linux, survives reboots, and eliminates the need for external dongles or complex hardware configurations.
Pair your Xbox / PlayStation controller, headphones, or sensors inside your gaming VM - even with Bluetooth chips that can't be passed through.
- zbentley
Don’t download this. It’s a curl | bash installer for a binary whose sources appear to just … be the popular FOSS bluez btproxy tool, which it downloads and builds, and whose binaries are checked into the repo. But those binaries could just as easily be malware, and every Linux distribution under the sun has bluez as a first-class package.
Assuming that this repo is well intentioned, this should have been a blog post on how to install bluez for your platform and use its proxy tool, with some shell one liners provided to make that easy. Not a curl | bash installer for something totally opaque, which turns out to be another project’s software basically renamed into this repo.
This is not the way. Also potentially a license or trademark/name issue.
- poisonborz
Or just buy a $15 dongle instead of the crap interference-laden onboard BT and have problem-free USB passtrough as well.
- spikk
It is a little bit weird to me having a rule of first unauthenticated client side request winning here