[SOLVED] Lenovo bluetooth keyboard needs to be connected at each boot.

re-mind · 2017-10-03 14:50:48

Hi

I have recently purchased a new lenovo bluetooth compact keyboard which works like a charm, when it has been connected through bluetoothctl. However I am only able to trust and connect the keyboard in bluetoothctl whereas pairing does not work. When I connect the keyboard bluetoothctl tells me that it has already been paired. Cool.

I have recently been using a Apple Keyboard (on the same computer) which automatically connected at boot so I could use it when logging in with gdm, however, this is not possible with this keyboard. I have to manually connect it through either bluetoothctl or blueman-applet after login. During the gdm-login the keyboard blinks like it is searching for a connection.

I have followed the arch wiki about bluetooth and thereby also told the bluetooth controller to automatically power on in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf. But I still have to manually connect the keyboard at boot and therefore, I always need to have a wired keyboard present

Any ideas?

Last edited by re-mind (2017-10-04 15:29:34)

re-mind · 2017-10-03 15:59:59

Update: The keyboard also disconnects when the screen goes to sleep and again it's necessary to reconnect manually with wired keyboard.

Last edited by re-mind (2017-10-03 21:37:20)

re-mind · 2017-10-04 15:28:40

Apparently this was far easier than expected. I hope I havent wasted anyones time

The problem was not that my keyboard was faulty, connected to other computers or anything else. bluetoothctl has autocomplete on most of the functions, but not for pairing. So when I tried to pair and wrote the keyboards whole mac-adr, the keyboard was properly paired and now works after a reboot. I'm a happy camper again. I'll mark this as solved.

Thanks

Arch Linux

#1 2017-10-03 14:50:48

[SOLVED] Lenovo bluetooth keyboard needs to be connected at each boot.

#2 2017-10-03 15:59:59

Re: [SOLVED] Lenovo bluetooth keyboard needs to be connected at each boot.

#3 2017-10-04 15:28:40

Re: [SOLVED] Lenovo bluetooth keyboard needs to be connected at each boot.

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