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No Bluetooth Connectivity

jplegat

September 15, 2018 00:50

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Hi folks,

I've just installed the Beocreate 4 Channel Amp + Raspberry Pi 3 in a CX50 and works fine via AirPlay, but not Bluetooth. I've tried to connect to it from my iPhone and MacBook Pro but it doesn't show up in the device list. Apparently, from the console, Bluetooth is enabled but not discoverable by default:

 

[bluetooth]# show

Controller B8:27:EB:76:87:12

Name: Beovox CX50

Alias: Beovox CX50

Class: 0x000000

Powered: yes

Discoverable: no

Pairable: yes

UUID: Generic Attribute Profile (00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)

UUID: A/V Remote Control        (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)

UUID: PnP Information           (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)

UUID: Generic Access Profile    (00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)

UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)

Modalias: usb:v1D6Bp0246d052B

Discovering: no

[bluetooth]# discoverable on

Changing discoverable on succeeded

[CHG] Controller B8:27:EB:76:87:12 Discoverable: yes

[bluetooth]# 

And even though I've set Bluetooth to "discoverable on", it didn't show up in the available devices.

Am I missing something else? Shouldn't Bluetooth be discoverable by default? Any pointers?

Thanks,

JP

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  jplegat September 15, 2018 00:54

  And this is the output from "systemctl status bluetooth"

   

  pi@beovox-cx50:~ $ sudo systemctl status bluetooth

  ● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service

     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

     Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-09-15 00:18:32 UTC; 33min ago

       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)

   Main PID: 20606 (bluetoothd)

     Status: "Running"

     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service

             └─20606 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

   

  Sep 15 00:18:32 beovox-cx50 systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...

  Sep 15 00:18:32 beovox-cx50 bluetoothd[20606]: Bluetooth daemon 5.43

  Sep 15 00:18:32 beovox-cx50 systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.

  Sep 15 00:18:32 beovox-cx50 bluetoothd[20606]: Starting SDP server

  Sep 15 00:18:32 beovox-cx50 bluetoothd[20606]: Bluetooth management interface 1.14 initialized

  Sep 15 00:18:32 beovox-cx50 bluetoothd[20606]: Failed to obtain handles for "Service Changed" characteristic

  Sep 15 00:18:32 beovox-cx50 bluetoothd[20606]: Sap driver initialization failed.

  Sep 15 00:18:32 beovox-cx50 bluetoothd[20606]: sap-server: Operation not permitted (1)

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  jplegat September 15, 2018 01:10

  Never mind :-D. Executing the following and restarting it solved the issue:

  sudo /home/pi/beocreate-installer install-source shairport-sync

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  HiFiBerry team September 15, 2018 05:36

  Hi,

  in this case, you're using Airplay, not Bluetooth. But that's fine, with Apple devices, Airplay is in general the better option than BT.

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  jplegat September 15, 2018 20:12

  Not sure about that. It's definitely connected via Bluetooth to the phone now. Maybe it was the restart and not reinstalling the whole shairport package again that did the trick, but I did restart it before and it didn't work.

   

  pi@beovox-cx50:~ $ sudo bluetoothctl

  [bluetooth]# paired-devices

  Device D8:8F:76:64:40:BD JP’s iPhone

  [bluetooth]#