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Bluetooth status: inactive (dead)
I did:
sudo modprobe btusb # add the btusb module to the kernel
sudo systemctl start bluetooth.service
And it works!
$ sudo systemctl status bluetooth.service
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
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How to stream sound to a bluetooth device from a raspberry pi zero
I did manage to play sound and record using my Marshall MID headphones using a Raspberry Pi Zero W, which has a builtin WiFi + Bluetooth adapter, but no audio jack.
Please note that there are ...
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How can I open a connection to my Raspberry Pi over Bluetooth without having to pair?
I am assuming it is a Serial Port Profile (SPP) connection that you are trying to establish between the two machines. The Linux Bluetooth stack uses BlueZ which has an API for setting up classic ...
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Can Raspberry Pi use ANT+ as well as Bluetooth?
No you can't use the built in WiFi or Bluetooth radio to communicate with ANT!
WiFi also can't emulate Bluetooth or ANT as they all use the 2.4GHz ISM free frequency band.
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Scripting bluetoothctl causes it to fail after connection
I don't think bluetoothctl was ever intended to work in this way. While I am sure you could get it to work, BlueZ are often changing the commands in bluetoothctl so your script is likely to break when ...
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Bluetooth status: inactive (dead)
I assume you are using a Raspberry Pi OS based on Buster. It is curious that systemd does not give you any output what's going on with the bluetooth.service. The status should at least contain ...
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BlueZ with Raspberry Pi 3
Yes, BlueZ is included in the latest versions of Raspberry Pi OS. To check that it is running on your system, use the command service bluetooth status.
BlueZ's API for interfacing with various ...
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How to read a string from a file and advertise as a beacon?
There are a lot of parts to your question. I would recommend that you break the problem down into a series of smaller problems. Maybe:
Get advertisement working with hard coded values
Add reading ...
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bluetooth is not working after updation
It is a known issue on the PI4. Take a look at the forum thread:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=311457#p1864038
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BlueZ receive Bluetooth sensor information
gatttool is one of the tools that has been deprecated by the BlueZ project. If you are following a tutorial that uses those tools then you should be careful that the tutorial isn't incompatible with ...
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BlueZ Profile RequireAuthentication=False not working when trying to initiate connection without pairing
I have tested the Python code you posted in your question on my system and it also didn't work.
Looking at it more closely, and running some experiments, I noticed that you were not making the server ...
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BlueZ Profile RequireAuthentication=False not working when trying to initiate connection without pairing
This answer only relates to the UUID question in the comments. See section 5.1 in
https://github.com/petzval/btferret documentation for a discussion of serial UUIDs. The specification of a service as ...
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Bluetooth disconnects when SSH connection closes (RPi Zero 2)
If someone stumbles upon this: pulseaudio was the culprit. pulseaudio uses systemd to check if anyone is logged on, else it shuts down. This also closes the BT connection.
I fixed my problem by ...
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bluetooth is not working after updation
by executing this command
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
dpkg -l pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
issue has been solved
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Trouble connecting to bluetooth device
There are two types of Bluetooth, classic and BLE. How these two types of Bluetooth work is very different. We need to know which type it is before being able to make recommendations on how to proceed....
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How would I send files to Raspberry Pi through bluetooth without touching the Pi?
Bluetooth is interoperable by having common ways to interact defined by the Bluetooth SIG. There is a list of these profiles at:
https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/profiles-overview/
The list of ...
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Unable to broadcast string as beacon
There are only 26 bytes available in advertising data. 2 bytes are used for the company ID. That leaves 24 bytes for data.
When I try to use an advertisement that is too long I get the following ...
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Not getting an "Enter Pin" prompt when pairing with BLE device
What has worked for me:
agent on
default-agent
power on
connect [mac-addr] (instead of pair [mac-addr])
The missing steps for me were power on and using connect instead of pair. Now it's working and ...
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Unable to locate package python3-bluez
The package you've asked about - python3-bluez is available in the current package repository (buster). This may be verified as follows:
$ apt-cache search python3-bluez
python3-bluez - Python 3 ...
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Raspberry Pi Bluetooth HCI Event Code Meaning
The easiest way of seeing what the HCI commands are doing is to have sudo btmon running in another terminal. btmon does a good job of giving more information about what is happening at the HCI low ...
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How to restart/release rfcomm for bluetooth communication?
rfcomm is one of the tools that has been deprecated by the BlueZ team as working at that low level can lead to unpleasant things happening on the system because those tools by passed the the bluetooth ...
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obexd - Receive files error
I had exactly the same problem and I resolve it just now.
In my case I had not set the copy gconv libraries option in the Linaro external toolchain options of my buildroot distribution. I set it and ...
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Raspberry Pi 3B+ BLE peripheral : Android can't retrieve services list, OK with iPhone and Win10
I have found to get reliable connection to Android phones it is best to put the controller into le only mode. This is done in the /etc/bluetooth/main.conf file. Ensure that it contains the following:
...
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Raspberry Pi 3B+ BLE peripheral : Android can't retrieve services list, OK with iPhone and Win10
"Android" is a broad family of devices, each with different BT hardware and drivers, and as a result with different behavior and quirks. If you own a device from a major brand, searching or asking ...
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bluez - failure to pair bluetooth remote
After much strife, my issue was solved by installing blueman and using its wizard to pair the remote.
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Develop a communicattion between a Raspberry with BLE server and a Raspberry with BLE client
I'll mark this as an answer because I could make it possible with the libraries written in javascript noble and bleno
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Bluetooth Blues
A possible solution is to add users to groups e.g.
sudo gpasswd -a pi pulse
sudo gpasswd -a pi lp
sudo gpasswd -a pulse lp
sudo gpasswd -a pi audio
sudo gpasswd -a pulse audio
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Connecting a new Bluetooth device without monitor?
Taken from raspberryPi.org
To pair type pair xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx where xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx is your BD address of the
device you want to pair
Next type trust xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
You should read the full ...
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Pulseaudio module-combine-sink always throws Failure
Figured out the reason why it was not working.
On checking the logs of pulseaudio, I found that it was not able to find the module-combine-sink library.
I copied the libraries manually in /usr/lib/...
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