Re: [gentoo-user] bluez 5 not connecting

[William Kenworthy]

On 04/23/14 19:59, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> 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.
>

Hi John, the above is bluez 5.15, and the messages above including from
the connect command are using bluetoothctl ...

Had a play with hcitool and and I cant get a connect with that either.
Tried updating bluez to 5.17 and still nothing.

BillK