On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 19:54 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 12/16/16 19:44, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 18:56 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 12/16/16 17:55, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > I've been having problems with my Bluetooth mouse for a long time
now.
> > > My PC has a dongle and BT randomly disconnects when I reboot or even
> > > return from hibernation or suspend. I've put "hciconfig hci0
up" in an
> > > rc.local script to try to force it but even that only works some of the
> > > time.
> > >
> > > However aside from all that, I've now noticed that it frequently
> > > disconnects even if I log out of Plasma and back in again. This means I
> > > have to keep an extra mouse around just to activate it.
> > >
> > > This is ridiculous. Is anyone else seeing a similar problem?
> >
> > I don't have a bluetooth mouse.....
> >
> > But, just looking around I was wondering if making entries in
/etc/bluetooth/main.conf for
> > ReconnectUUIDs and the related options would be helpful.
>
> I think I'm missing something here. How do I discover what UUID my
> device has? The man pages are completely silent. The only mention of
> UUIDs relates either to programs for generating new ones, or for stuff
> related to disk drives (which I'm already familiar with).
>
> Google throws up a huge amount of BT documentaion, which (in a pattern
> familiar to us all) uses its own special terminology and cannot be
> understood unless you read all of it or take a course. Kind of like
> systemd ...
>
>
Use bluetoothctl which throws you into a shell of its own.
Then, use "info" to list information about connected devices. My headphones
give this....
Device 1C:48:F9:A0:94:2A
Name: Jabra ROX Wireless v2.9.0
Alias: Jabra ROX Wireless v2.9.0
Class: 0x240404
Icon: audio-card
Paired: yes
Trusted: yes
Blocked: no
Connected: yes
LegacyPairing: no
UUID: Headset (00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Audio Sink (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Handsfree (0000111e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
Impressive docs-fu. I don't know if I would ever have found that. Unfortunately it
didn't work.
Thanks anyway.
poc