I have a Bluetooth dongle that I want to use in a docker container. Docker requires that the Host OS install drivers for the device before it can be passed to the container.
Searching the forums it appears I am not alone in that need, particularly for the users of Home Assistant.
See this post for more info:
After messing with this for a bit I realized I could in fact pass the specific USB bluetooth device as yayitazale attempted above. The key was to pass it as a path. Instead of doing
--device='/dev/bus/usb/001/006'
Pass that device as a path with read/write access and make the container privileged. So under your docker container settings, add a path and enter the device path into both the host and container path values and make it read/write:
More specific to the home assis