Some time ago, someone shared
https://esphome.io/ and I didn't quite get the purpose of it. I realized I just hadn't come far enough on my journey. I just bought a few ESP32 boards, and programmed them with
https://esphome.io/components/bluetooth_proxy.html. It's so cool! I can have blue tooth devices hundreds of feet away but in wifi range. This will proxy all bluetooth packets over the Wifi directly to Home Assistant.