William Kenworthy <[email protected]> wrote:
> The bluez-5 stack is causing me some problems. It will pair but then
> says its not paired so wont connect. Googling shows lots of problems
> with many saying it suddenly starts working and they don't know what
> happened!
>
> The BT dongle worked fine under bluez-3 and 4. The other end is an
> arduino which needs to be connected via an rfcomm channel (for serial
> comms) and the hardware on both ends has been working for literally years.
>
> After upgrading to bluez-5 it stopped working.
>
> I used bluetoothctl to pair it and info shows it paired and trusted, but
> I cant connect to it:
>
> [bluetooth]# info 00:11:03:17:01:12
> Device 00:11:03:17:01:12
> Name: anubis
> Alias: anubis
> Class: 0x001f00
> Paired: yes
> Trusted: yes
> Blocked: no
> Connected: no
> LegacyPairing: yes
> UUID: Serial Port
> (00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
> [bluetooth]# connect 00:11:03:17:01:12
> Attempting to connect to 00:11:03:17:01:12
> [CHG] Device 00:11:03:17:01:12 Connected: yes
> Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.NotAvailable
> [CHG] Device 00:11:03:17:01:12 Connected: no
> [bluetooth]#
>
>
> What am I missing/misunderstanding?
Make sure you have at least 5.14, below that mine did not work at all.
Try the connect from blutoothctl and seewhat it says. Also, you have to
put the device up before you do anything, such as hciconfig hci0 up
whereas before you did not have to do this.
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