Edge driver for "generic" Bluetooth devices?

It’s not possible at the present time because SmartThings hubs and the Aeotec hub do not offer Bluetooth for control of home automation devices. Only for some onboarding tasks.

If you have a Samsung Galaxy smart phone you can add some Bluetooth devices to your phone, but they won’t show up in SmartThings routines.

When it comes to using Bluetooth beacons, that’s actually pretty simple but you have to use a second app as a “receiving station“. I do this in my own home with iBeacons.

Here’s the community FAQ on that.

FAQ: IBeacon Short FAQ (2024) (US AND UK)

And of course, any Bluetooth device like Flic or some of the SwitchBot devices which connects to its own hub which is a “matter bridge” can bring some of those devices into SmartThings that way. But it’s up to that third-party matter Bridge to expose the devices to SmartThings.

So you can have Bluetooth devices in a SmartThings set up, but it’s not done with edge drivers and it’s not done by direct Bluetooth communication to a SmartThings hub.

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