Something rotten in the State of Bluetooth

[castalla]

After days of testing, reinstalling, reimaging (plus numerous requests for advice across various forums - with almost no response) I have to conclude that there's something seriously broken with the Pi and Bluetooth.

The symptoms seen when using a Logitech mini boombox are:

1. Bluetooth + ethernet: pairing successful, audio works. Switching off the bt device kills the ethernet after 10 secs. Requires hard reboot.

2. Bluetooth + wifi: pairing successful, audio works. Switching off the device doesn't kill the network

BUT

A second attempt to connect kills the network immediately. Requires hard reboot.

I suspect a usb system fault in the firmware.

Anybody from Raspi dev or whatever care to comment, please?

[jamesh]

After days of testing, reinstalling, reimaging (plus numerous requests for advice across various forums - with almost no response) I have to conclude that there's something seriously broken with the Pi and Bluetooth.

The symptoms seen when using a Logitech mini boombox are:

1. Bluetooth + ethernet: pairing successful, audio works. Switching off the bt device kills the ethernet after 10 secs. Requires hard reboot.

2. Bluetooth + wifi: pairing successful, audio works. Switching off the device doesn't kill the network

BUT

A second attempt to connect kills the network immediately. Requires hard reboot.

I suspect a usb system fault in the firmware.

Anybody from Raspi dev or whatever care to comment, please?

There are known issue with the USB - see the USB redux thread. That may be the problem.

[castalla]

Thanks - I already posted there.

I understand that there some guy working on the usb issues - I wonder if this BT issue could be raised with him? (http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 43#p259343)

As others use BT mainly for keyboards, then I doubt the issue ever comes to light because it wouldn't make sense to switch a kb and/or mouse off.