Help needed understanding BLE with HA
Can someone help me understand BLE Integrations?
My HA is running on a VM in a Ugreen NAS. I do not have any USB Bluetooth dongles (yet).
I installed an Olimex LTD, ESP32-POE-ISO-EA Bluetooth Proxy so I could move away from Cloud Integrations, and have it working, set to active scanning. It only shows 4/4 connections. Is that all this device can handle? I have a total of 14 Switchbot devices that are working via the Swicthbot Buetooth integration. Why if it can only handle 4 devices?
I also have a Shelly Pill with a single temperature sensor and it shows up as passive scanning with No Connection Slots.
When I look at the visualization map, I see the following;
Linked to the POE Proxy;
· Green Dots - 4 SB devices.
· Grey Dots - (unknown devices); 1 ihoment, 1 Linksys, and 1 MAC address.
Linked to Shelly Pill;
· Green Dots; the other 10 SB devices
· Grey Dots (unknown devices); 1 Govee, 2 Linksys, 1 MELK-OA10W, and several others with names I don't recognize and a whole bunch with just a MAC address.
The HA BT integration page shows; Online, 4/4 Connections. 2 Adapters, 4 Connections, 73 Advertisements (this number changes frequently).
I’ve tried Googling various questions on this but not getting far. Is it easy to explain what all this means or a tutorial somewhere that you can recommend?
Thank you all kind people.