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A protocol used for low-range, low-power, low-speed communication between devices (phones, keyboard, mice etc...).

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Bluetooth Pairing on Dual Boot of Windows & Linux Mint/Ubuntu - Stop having to Pair Devices

When dual booting Windows 7/10 and Linux Mint/Ubuntu, you may find yourself having to re-pair your Bluetooth devices again and again. This will happen every time you switch OS. Now, how do you prevent this? I'm answering my own question with the…
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Error when trying to connect to bluetooth speaker: `org.bluez.Error.Failed`

I'm running Debian Jessie 8.2. I have a bluetooth USB dongle connected to my machine. I run sudo bluetoothctl -a then do the following: [NEW] Controller 5C:F3:70:6B:57:60 debian [default] Agent registered [bluetooth]# scan on Discovery started [CHG]…
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Connect to a Bluetooth device via Terminal

I'm using Mint 15 w/ Cinnamon. I bought a set of bluetooth speakers and I'm trying to connect to them via terminal. Via the GUI I can see them normally and I am connected to them. I want to make a small script so every time they are visible I would…
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Bluetooth won't turn On on Ubuntu 20.04

I recently installed ubuntu 20.04 and bluetooth seemed to work out-of-the-box. Yesterday, it stopped working with no known reason. I can turn it ON but the settings still show it to be OFF. I tried the following: $ sudo -i $ rfkill list 0: phy0:…
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bluetooth.service running, but bluetoothctl says "org.bluez.Error.NotReady"

my raspberry pi 3 model B, running Arch, has an issue with bluetooth. First of all: Bluetooth has worked flawlessly previously pi-bluetooth from the AUR is up to date bluez and bluez-utils are up to date The system is up to date as well (just ran…
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Use high-quality codec and microphone simultaneously with Bluetooth headset

I have various Bluetooth headsets, and when I use these with Android and ChromeOS, I get decent bidirectional audio quality for calls and video chats. Unfortunately, when I use them on my arch Linux laptop (with PulseAudio 13.99.2+13+g7f4d7fcf5-1,…
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How to set up automatic connection of bluetooth headset?

My bluetooth headset works fine. Audio sink works. Everything work. But the problem is that I need to connect it manually to the PC: click on bluetooth icon near the time on kde taskbar => known devices => Connect # bluetoothctl => connect…
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How do I connect and send data to a bluetooth serial port on Linux?

I'm trying to setup a virtual serial port though a USB-Bluetooth adapter on Linux and send a message to it through an Android device. I'm on kernel 3.6. I'm able to pair to the device successfully using gnome-bluetooth and also able to send files to…
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Pairing Bose QC 35 over Bluetooth on Fedora

I am running Fedora 24 with Gnome Shell. I try to pair my new Bose QuietComfort 35 over Bluetooth. I started using the Gnome interface. Unfortunately, the connection seems not to hold. It appears as constantly…
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Sending to two bluetooth speakers at once

Is it possible to send the same audio signal to two different Bluetooth speakers at once from a single source? I remember reading somewhere that it's possible to send audio to two different sinks using PulseAudio, but I'm not sure if that applies to…
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Waiting to connect to bluetoothd

I can't invoke my bluetoothctl anymore. It waits for connections withouth success showing this in the terminal: me@mashin:~$ bluetoothctl Waiting to connect to bluetoothd... Any suggestion how to start the joyful debuging? I am using Debian…
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Pairing LOGITECH K380 in Ubuntu 20.04

I connected to my new K380 without the pairing process using bluetooth manager. After that, using for some time, I notice that the keyboard was not answering anymore, and I've always to reconnect it to have it working. I'd like to know if there is a…
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Bluetooth Headset volume too low (only in arch)

I connected a pair of AirPods to everything I could. Android, OSX, Linux Mint, Arch LInux. It sounds great on all of them, but when connected under Arch, I can get get less than half the volume even if I max all volumes I can find. It's strange that…
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Bluetoothctl: No default controller available, despite being unblocked

I'm having issues connecting my Logitech K810 Bluetooth keyboard in Debian Jessie with BlueZ version 5.23-1, kernel 3.16.0-4. The keyboard works fine most of the time but sometimes it doesn't work at all and bluetoothctl gives me the error that the…
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Bluetooth LE scan as non root?

To perform a scan for bluetooth LE devices hcitool apparently requires root privileges. For normal users the output is following: $ hcitool lescan Set scan parameters failed: Operation not permitted Why does hcitool need root privileges for a LE…
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