Odious

+1. No idea what’s supposed to lead to this conclusion. I’d say that’s a bad PID tune.

What’s the point of smaller hubs? What kind of benefits do they provide?

Are you comfortable with flashing microcontrollers? https://esphome.io/components/bluetooth_proxy.html might be a solution to your BLE beacon idea. buy any esp32 board for like 5$, put it somewhere in your living room or wherever makes sense and have it proxy BLE scans to HomeAssistant.

I’d love to upvote this more than once. What’s the point of all those super high quality graphics if the core gameplay hasn’t advanced in the slightest 🙄