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alJak

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Registered: 2021-06-20

Posts: 3

Bluetooth Controller Turning Off

Hello!

I'm trying to connect a bluetooth mouse, and it's starting to get frustrating fun. Here's what things are looking like (after I run bluetoothctl, choose the agent, and make sure I have the right controller):

[bluetooth]# power on
[CHG] Controller 40:49:0F:BD:76:BC Class: 0x006c010c
Changing power on succeeded
[CHG] Controller 40:49:0F:BD:76:BC Powered: yes
[bluetooth]# 

And then about 3-5 seconds later, I get this:

[DEL] Device F8:4B:5C:8A:07:B6 BluetoothMouse3600
[CHG] Controller 40:49:0F:BD:76:BC Class: 0x00000000
[CHG] Controller 40:49:0F:BD:76:BC Powered: no
[CHG] Controller 40:49:0F:BD:76:BC Discovering: no
[DEL] Controller 40:49:0F:BD:76:BC Computername [default]
[NEW] Controller 40:49:0F:BD:76:BC Computername [default]
[NEW] Device F8:4B:5C:8A:07:B6 BluetoothMouse3600
[CHG] Controller 40:49:0F:BD:76:BC UUIDs: 0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb

Which presumable indicates that the controller is losing power after around 5 seconds. If I act fast, I can do stuff in that 5 second window. In fact, once I even got the mouse connected with pair (MAC) and could move it around the screen. (Also I changed my computer's name to Computername here, and there 10 copies of the last message).

I've read up on things on the wiki and on other forums, but I can't find similar issues. If anything, I'd guess this is an issue with my wireless card. This computer has been annoying about it for years, way back to when I still ran windows instead. Still, if anyone has had something similar or any ideas let me know!

Also this is my first post here! Let me know if I should be doing anything differently

Last edited by alJak (2021-12-24 00:46:40)

alJak

Member

Registered: 2021-06-20

Posts: 3

Re: Bluetooth Controller Turning Off

I'm having a bit more luck using blueberry. Still some issues with disconnecting, but it's a few minutes instead of a few seconds. Still let me know if anyone's had something similar!