# Bluetooth cloning

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/bluetooth-cloning/139607>\
**Category:** Ideas & Suggestions\
**Created:** [July 11, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/bluetooth-cloning/139607 "2025-07-11T12:55:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Luckosaurous](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/luckosaurous/32/80542_2.png) [@Luckosaurous](https://community.homey.app/u/Luckosaurous)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/bluetooth-cloning/139607/1 "2025-07-11T12:55:43Z")

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Forgive my ignorance, but are there any reasons that Homey can’t clone Bluetooth signals to work as a remote control?

I know it has the IR blaster built in, but some devices are operated by Bluetooth remote controls instead.

It would be a great way to integrate thousands of ‘smart’ devices that don’t currently have a homey app, as most of them will connect to your phone via Bluetooth, so why not have the homey send the Bluetooth signal to control the device instead of our phones?

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 1:20pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/bluetooth-cloning/139607/2 "2025-07-11T13:20:16Z")

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Only Athom can tell → homey.app/support

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**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/bluetooth-cloning/139607/3 "2025-07-11T13:33:49Z")

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> [@Luckosaurous](#):
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> Forgive my ignorance, but are there any reasons that Homey can’t clone Bluetooth signals to work as a remote control?  
> …  
> It would be a great way to integrate thousands of ‘smart’ devices that don’t currently have a homey app, as most of them will connect to your phone via Bluetooth, so why not have the homey send the Bluetooth signal to control the device instead of our phones?

433Mhz and IR remotes (usually) use dumb signals, just a specific bit stream for each command, without authentication or basically any underlying protocol, which makes them (somewhat) trivial to clone (just record the signal and play it back).

Bluetooth/BLE is a proper protocol, with clients, servers, (optional) authentication, (optional) encryption, request/response, etc. You can’t just record its signals and play them back.