bluetooth is not running ... [Solved]

[brogdonbr]

I need some help troubleshooting a bluetooth issue wuith my raspberry pi. My eventual goal is to use a SixAxis controller with RetroPie. I have found a couple of websites with directions, but I can't seem to get bluetooth working. I had an old module lying in my electronic graveyard that was showing up as a "

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Bus 001 Device 013: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

". Just to be on the safe side, I stopped at the store and picked up an IOGEAR GBU521 which shows up as "

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Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a5c:21e8 Broadcom Corp

.
When I run hciconfig, I get the following:

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hci0:   Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
        BD Address: 00:02:72:33:60:63  ACL MTU: 1021:8  SCO MTU: 64:1
        UP RUNNING PSCAN
        RX bytes:1961809 acl:33805 sco:0 events:76 errors:0
        TX bytes:1927 acl:29 sco:0 commands:55 errors:0

So far, everything seems good, right? The Pi recognizes the bluetooth dongle. I've installed the drivers by running

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sudo apt-get install bluetooth

. Everything seems to install fine without any problems. However, when I try and see the status, I get

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 $ /etc/init.d/bluetooth status
[FAIL] bluetooth is not running ... failed!

I don't know why, but I went ahead and went through the rest of the process to install the SixAxis. It seems to pair, but when I unplug the controller and hit the center button, it does not come to life as it should.

Linux newbie here--please be gentle. If I have broken any protocol or procedures, let me know. I would just like to know why this doesn't seem to work for me.

[brogdonbr]

Never mind. I did a fresh Raspian install on a brand new SD card and now bluetooth seems to be working fine. Now to install Retropie...

[castalla]

Just a couple of points.

1. You have 2 bt dongles. You don't specify which is working (or is it both)?

2. You should also install bluez-utils - this will help you to set-up the bt device.

[IguanaC64]

Just to add some info to this...I seem to have the same bluetooth dongle (Azio BTD-V401)...on LSUSB it identifies as:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Ilicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

Bluetooth would seem to start, but a "/etc/init.d/bluetooth status" would say it's not running.

I've been fighting this issue myself because I knew at one point everything said bluetooth was fine.

Here's what I did first to troubleshoot:
1) Started from freshly imaged microSD with Raspbian Wheezy
2) I set up bluetooth according to http://www.pridopia.co.uk/rs-pi-set-bluetooth.html
3) I then set up Retropie according to https://github.com/petrockblog/RetroPie-Setup (I selected binaries and installed the PS3 controller option)

This is when it stops showing me bluetooth is running. Prior to installing RetroPie and options, status was fine.

So...tonight, I:
1) Started from freshly imaged microSD with Raspbian Wheezy
2) Set up bluetooth according to http://www.pridopia.co.uk/rs-pi-set-bluetooth.html
3) Set up sixad according to http://www.raspians.com/Knowledgebase/p ... pberry-pi/

Again...bluetooth says it's not running when I do a status, however, my PS3 controller now syncs every time I hit the PS3 button.

This makes sense in hindsight. On the PC when you set up a PS3 controller, the PS3 driver pretty much takes control of your bluetooth adapter so that you can only sync it to a PS3 controller. I'm guessing sixad is doing the same thing and that's why Raspbian acts like it's no longer working.