I’m noticing a lot of issues with bluetooth popping up, and they only seem to be getting worse.

First it was my PS3 controller. Randomly stopped working with bluetooth after an update.

Then I noticed bluetooth sometimes just… crashes and doesn’t recover. There’s probably some weird/sketchy command I can use to reset it, but I’ve just resorted to rebooting whenever it happened.

Now my bluetooth speaker just straight up fails to connect. I was using it, the connection ‘failed’, and now it won’t connect. Lol.

Meanwhile on my phone it works just fine.

Is anyone else having issues? Does it feels like the quality of bluetooth support has diminished in recent months?

To me, this feels like some new contributors are doing things they shouldn’t be doing or some other cultural shift among them.

  • dan@upvote.au
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    9 months ago

    I was trying to use a Bluetooth USB dongle on my home server with Home Assistant to integrate Bluetooth devices like Switchbot Locks into it. It worked sometimes, but it was so unreliable that I ended up getting an ESP32-based device and making it into an ESPHome Bluetooth proxy. Not an option for everything (it’s only really designed for use with Home Assistant) but works well for my use case.

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      Homeassistant is super fussy about bluetooth. Its how i found out my bluetooth adapters were counterfeit. I bought some genuine Asus BT500 adapters and they have worked fine (i think)

      • dan@upvote.au
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        9 months ago

        It wasn’t a Home Assistant issue though. All the errors were coming from Bluez.