[solved]]Bluetooth wont connect devices all the time (intermittent} was working

[winestein]

I have a  Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and they wont pair now some times they work sometimes tho so im not sure whats up here  I did a couple updates after from the repo just after christmas when i had it goin i had blueman installled but its an old version from the repo but after it started messin up i took out bluman, I notice that bluedevil stuff segfaults as well.

[AndrzejL]

Hi Dude.

Try running

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hcitool scan
from terminal and if it says

[andrzejl@icsserver ~]$ hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such device
[andrzejl@icsserver ~]$

Try running

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su -c "bluetoothd -u"
followed by root password and rerunning the

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hcitool scan
again.

If it works this time - add

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bluetoothd -u
as root as a last line of the

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/etc/rc.local
file and reboot. Upon reboot You should have functional bluetooth again. It worked for me.

If this is only a pairing problem that You have - try installing blueman and using it for pairing purposes.

Regards.

P.S. Just in case - those are the bluetooth packages that I have installed:

[andrzejl@icsserver ~]$ rpm -qa | grep blue
python-pybluez-0.18-2pclos2011
bluez-4.93-2pclos2011
libbluez3-4.93-2pclos2011
bluez-firmware-1.2-1pclos2010
gnome-bluetooth-2.32.0-1pclos2010
bluedevil-1.1-2pclos2011
bluez-pin-0.30-12pclos2010
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-0.9.23-1pclos2011
libbluedevil1-1.8.1-2pclos2011
[andrzejl@icsserver ~]$

P.S. More info about Your hardware might help. Is it a USB bluetooth? Or maybe a built in laptop bluetooth? OR a PC pci card bluetooth?

[winestein]

my mouse is still working with or without the last line   but keyboard wont stay after reboot   theres a problem at pairing so it dont pair

[winestein]

i use hidd to connect all bluetooth devices   then at reboot  on kde login my keyboard starts wanting to be paired   to sum this up: I can pair all 3 bluetooth devices with hidd command and it all works fine untill I reboot then only the bluetooth  mouse works and not the bluetooth keyboard and bluetooth keypad   im using an asus bt21 dongle and everything was workin fine until 2 - 3 days ago
 

[winestein]

i just put in new batteries into keyboard and keypad and all is working well   thank you for helping me thru this

[AndrzejL]

Ah... So it was a low power issue? Cool beans!

Regards.

[winestein]

s a power issue  but b4 i thought that,  I thought it was bad usb bluetooth dongle, bad bluetooth keyboard and keypad i thought bluez  and blueman werent working properly but the mouse kept workin so I was wondering ...  thanks for all your help  I glad that chapter of bluetooth madness is over   also I did learn some dbus and hidd,and  hci  commands on this journey so its cool