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kevinvincent / ha-wyzesense

A Home Assistant Component to interface with the WYZE Sense hub and sensor system
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Passing Dongle Through VirtualBox #159

Open seantdavidson opened 4 years ago

seantdavidson commented 4 years ago

I just moved my Home Assistant from docker to VirtualBox. I am not 100% sure how to make sure that VirtualBox sees the Hub. Not sure if anyone here has tested or used it on VirtualBox.

HOST: Pop! OS Linux VM: Home Assistant VDI home-assistant.log

TomBrandt commented 4 years ago

In Virtual box settings for the Hass installation under USB you should see the USB device. I had no problem seeing the dongle. But I was an early adopter of the integration and removed it from my installation. Only due to reliability at that time.

dc111111 commented 3 years ago

I was able to get this working without issue. In VirtualBox I went to the settings for the virtual machine -> USB -> New USB Filter and selected QinHeng Electronics.

seantdavidson commented 3 years ago

I was able to get this working without issue. In VirtualBox I went to the settings for the virtual machine -> USB -> New USB Filter and selected QinHeng Electronics.

@dc111111 I will take a look. I could not find it no matter what I did. I ended up running the Supervised version in Docker even through it is not 100% supported by Home Assistant

chriselera commented 3 years ago

These are the items I see in VirtualBox USB Device Filters; Wyze Sense bridge is QinHeng Electronics. Running on Intel NUC, Linux Mint.

VirtualBox USB Device Filters

walrus416 commented 3 years ago

Also, some have been experiencing the issue where about once every 1-2 days, the sensors stop updating. It happened to me but I was able to resolve this issue by enabling USB 3.0 xHCI as the controller instead of USB 2.0