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ivanmmj

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Registered: 2013-08-17

Posts: 7

Bluetooth detected by hcitool but nothing else

Good evening,

I've been using arch for about a year now but I have yet to get my bluetooth to work. I finally got hcitool to detect the device and it can scan and find my headsets but nothing else seems to work.

ivan@arch ~ $ hcitool dev
Devices:
        hci0    88:53:2E:B4:2A:43

ivan@arch ~ $ hcitool scan
Scanning ...
        00:18:6B:16:AA:C4       LG HBS730

ivan@arch ~ $ sudo bluez-simple-agent hci0 00:18:6B:16:AA:C4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/bluez-simple-agent", line 115, in <module>
    path = manager.FindAdapter(args[0])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.bluez.Error.NoSuchAdapter: No such adapter

As you can see, this (and ALL other bluetooth apps) can't see to find the adapter that hcitool so easily sees. I've tried both Bluez4 and Bluez5 and the issue is always the same.
I'm hoping someone can lead me to the answer! Maybe I'm missing something really simple!