Questions tagged [bluetooth]
A protocol used for low-range, low-power, low-speed communication between devices (phones, keyboard, mice etc...).
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Help with a systemctl error from cron in Debian
This error may be specific to systemd - or perhaps bluetooth : This is a "headless" system. I would like to auto-connect my BT speaker after a reboot. Before upgrading my system from '...
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Bluetooth adapter disappears
OS Fedora 43 Yesterday bluetooth was working fine, today it does not. Need help to locate the source of the issue and fix it. What I did: $ lsusb .. other usb devices Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0121:0c2c ...
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How to access raw standard HCI with a USB dongle
This question is half linux half hardware, I apologize if it doesn't belong here. I want to run BLE scanning on a raspberry pi 4B (with rpi OS full 64) using a BLE dongle (for some mysterious reason, ...
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Bluetooth headset is not connecting properly
Headset: Spark 06 Software: Fedora 42, blueman-manager 2.4.6 After first pairing (or forget device and make a new pairing) the headset works perfectly. But in the System Settings -> Sound, I see ...
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Bluetooth speaker/headphones stop playing when Bluetooth keyboard is connected
A little background: I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T480s with an old Bluetooth module. I wanted to upgrade because, when connecting more than two devices at the same time, the mouse was lagging, and I ...
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How to get bluetooth headsets working in Debian Trixie Mate Desktop
On a reasonably plain vanilla Debian 13 Mate install on two old laptops, how to use a bluetooth headset? Laptop one is a Lenovo Thinkpad T440 laptop with a built-in bluetooth adapter Laptop two is a ...
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Udev Rule stops working after some time
I have an udev rule to wake my laptop using bluetooth as follows. ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", DRIVERS=="usb", \ ATTR{bDeviceClass}=="e0", \ ATTR{...
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Trying to install blueman but asks to remove pipewire
Recently bluetooth has disappeared from my machine. Its running, but its disappeared from my taskbar and the start menu. As far as I can tell its running anyway. I am running Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS with ...
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Fn and FnLock on external Bluetooth keyboard have no effect
I have a very specific problem. I'm using a Thinkpad X13 Yoga (Gen 3) with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and an external Bluetooth keyboard of type ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II with German layout. (I would ...
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Bluetooth on Lenovo Legion Pro 5 with Live Fedora 42
I'm testing if everything works on my new Lenovo Legion Pro 5 16IAX10 Ultra 7 with live Fedora (xfce) before I will install it. And I have issues with bluetooth. When I open bluetooth manager and ...
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How do i make my linux machine act as keyboard? [closed]
I am trying to build a keyboard multiplexer, Where i would be able to switch between machine-a and machine-b (given that these machines are connected via bluetooth). My current plan is to grab the ...
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Implement the Driver For Bluetooth Device
I have a HP mouse. Recently, I have been practicing implementing the device driver. Instead of using the hid-generic driver, I would like to use my customized driver for the Bluetooth device. I don't ...
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ASUS Laptop: Bluetooth: hci0: Reading Intel device address failed (-16)
I'm using an ASUS ZenBook 14 (UX3405CA) with an Intel WiFi 7 card. A couple weeks ago, I was running Arch and bluetoothctl worked, but graphical controls like blueman would show that bluetooth was ...
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Bluetooth headphones won't stay connected?
Bluetooth Signal Jamming in Linux Mint 22.1: Mouse Interference Blocks Audio Device Detection On Linux Mint 22.1 with PipeWire, I ran into an odd issue with Avantree Bluetooth headphones. They paired ...
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Why doesn't org.bluez.MediaPlayer1 appear when my Raspberry Pi connects to my iPhone via Bluetooth?
I'm using a Raspberry Pi with BlueZ 5.66 and Linux 6.6. I want to use the Pi as a Bluetooth audio sink (A2DP) and AVRCP controller so I can stream audio from an iPhone and control playback (play/pause/...
