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5280sgal

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From: Haifa, Israel

Registered: 2022-06-13

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Bluetooth speaker refuses to connect

Hey there, I'm having this issue with Arch that my JBL Go 3 or Xtreme 3 both refuse to connect via BT, and both the KDE settings and Blueman report this:

 br-connection-profile-unavailable 

What do I do? neofetch:

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                 `ooo/                   OS: Arch Linux x86_64 
                `+oooo:                  Kernel: 5.18.13-arch1-1 
               `+oooooo:                 Uptime: 8 mins 
               -+oooooo+:                Packages: 898 (pacman), 10 (flatpak) 
             `/:-:++oooo+:               Shell: bash 5.1.16 
            `/++++/+++++++:              Resolution: 1920x1080, 1920x1080 
           `/++++++++++++++:             DE: Plasma 5.25.3 
          `/+++ooooooooooooo/`           WM: KWin 
         ./ooosssso++osssssso+`          Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] 
        .oossssso-````/ossssss+`         Icons: [Plasma], breeze-dark [GTK2/3] 
       -osssssso.      :ssssssso.        Terminal: konsole 
      :osssssss/        osssso+++.       CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (16) @ 4.200GHz 
     /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-       GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 6600/6600 XT/6600M 
   `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-     Memory: 2377MiB / 15878MiB 
  `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:
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Motherboard: ASUS TUF Gaming B550M-E WIFI

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V1del

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Re: Bluetooth speaker refuses to connect

The bluetoothd service is started/enabled?

5280sgal

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From: Haifa, Israel

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Re: Bluetooth speaker refuses to connect

The bluetoothd service is started/enabled?

[sgal@MonolithicArches ~]$ systemctl status bluetoothd
Unit bluetoothd.service could not be found.

uhhh no.

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ewaller

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Re: Bluetooth speaker refuses to connect

uhhh no.

I am not, in general, an RTFM guy, I shall say it this time.  Read The Fine Manual.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/bluetooth

Step 1.

Last edited by ewaller (2022-07-25 00:08:36)

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5280sgal

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Re: Bluetooth speaker refuses to connect

Got it. I’ll install bluez once I’m available and I’ll tag solved later on.

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5280sgal

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Re: Bluetooth speaker refuses to connect

update: I forgot, bluez is already installed, also blueman fyi.

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Re: Bluetooth speaker refuses to connect

The bluetoothd service is started/enabled?

[sgal@MonolithicArches ~]$ systemctl status bluetoothd
Unit bluetoothd.service could not be found.

Ah, crap I misread that.  The service is bluetooth.service, not bluetoothd.service

ewaller@odin/home/ewaller % pacman -Ql bluez | grep \.service
bluez /usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth-mesh.service
bluez /usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service
bluez /usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus-org.bluez.obex.service
bluez /usr/lib/systemd/user/obex.service
bluez /usr/share/dbus-1/services/
bluez /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.bluez.obex.service
bluez /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/
bluez /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.bluez.mesh.service
bluez /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.bluez.service
ewaller@odin/home/ewaller % 

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5280sgal

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From: Haifa, Israel

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Re: Bluetooth speaker refuses to connect

The bluetoothd service is started/enabled?

[sgal@MonolithicArches ~]$ systemctl status bluetoothd
Unit bluetoothd.service could not be found.

Ah, crap I misread that.  The service is bluetooth.service, not bluetoothd.service

ewaller@odin/home/ewaller % pacman -Ql bluez | grep \.service
bluez /usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth-mesh.service
bluez /usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service
bluez /usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus-org.bluez.obex.service
bluez /usr/lib/systemd/user/obex.service
bluez /usr/share/dbus-1/services/
bluez /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.bluez.obex.service
bluez /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/
bluez /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.bluez.mesh.service
bluez /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.bluez.service
ewaller@odin/home/ewaller % 

[sgal@MonolithicArches ~]$ systemctl status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2022-07-24 18:44:32 IDT; 9h ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 617 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 19034)
     Memory: 2.6M
        CPU: 18ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─617 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Jul 24 18:44:32 MonolithicArches systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...
Jul 24 18:44:32 MonolithicArches bluetoothd[617]: Bluetooth daemon 5.64
Jul 24 18:44:32 MonolithicArches systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Jul 24 18:44:32 MonolithicArches bluetoothd[617]: Starting SDP server
Jul 24 18:44:32 MonolithicArches bluetoothd[617]: Bluetooth management interface 1.22 initialized

this service is up though, what gives then? the Go 3 happily pairs and connects with my Acer laptop which also runs Arch.

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Re: Bluetooth speaker refuses to connect

Here is a bluetoothctl session on my system.  Given the same commands, what gets you?

ewaller@odin/home/ewaller % bluetoothctl 
Agent registered
[SONY:SRS-X3]# list
Controller F4:26:79:3F:CD:1A odin [default]
[SONY:SRS-X3]# devices
Device 00:6A:8E:08:04:31 ABHS02F
Device 6C:5A:B5:A8:71:04 SONY:SRS-X3
Device 60:B7:6E:50:1F:EB Pixel 4a
quitY:SRS-X3]# 
ewaller@odin/home/ewaller % 

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5280sgal

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Re: Bluetooth speaker refuses to connect

Here is a bluetoothctl session on my system.  Given the same commands, what gets you?

ewaller@odin/home/ewaller % bluetoothctl 
Agent registered
[SONY:SRS-X3]# list
Controller F4:26:79:3F:CD:1A odin [default]
[SONY:SRS-X3]# devices
Device 00:6A:8E:08:04:31 ABHS02F
Device 6C:5A:B5:A8:71:04 SONY:SRS-X3
Device 60:B7:6E:50:1F:EB Pixel 4a
quitY:SRS-X3]# 
ewaller@odin/home/ewaller % 

this is the output following the same commands as you did:

[sgal@MonolithicArches ~]$ bluetoothctl
Agent registered
[bluetooth]# list
Controller 50:2F:9B:AE:BF:DB MonolithicArches [default]
[bluetooth]# devices
Device 28:FA:19:6B:77:CB JBL Go 3
Device D8:37:3B:58:E9:F5 El Booxa (JBL Xtreme 3)
[bluetooth]# 

except that it did register their MAC addresses but not sync and connect properly.

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ewaller

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Re: Bluetooth speaker refuses to connect

Well, the good news is that the Bluetooth is working.
So what do we mean that the GO 3 does not sync properly?  Will is associate? Or does it not work after associating?
How are you associating (manually, using a DE and its tools)?

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5280sgal

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Re: Bluetooth speaker refuses to connect

Associating using KDE settings or Blueman, I don't have the GO 3 but I do have the Xtreme 3 (aka El Booxa).

trying to pair my iPhone (just tried it, that's why it isn't listed in bluetoothctl) and KDE just reports that the configurator has failed and Blueman reported that my iPhone had just disconnected.

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