Raspberry Pi 3 - **BlueTooth Mega Thread **

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Hi - first - THANKS for updating the Image. OSMC is running fine on my new Pi3.

In MYOSMC Network is no bluetooth section. Is this a fault of my configuration or isnt it part of OSMC yet?

Can bluetooth support be added with apt-get commands in a shell ?

Or do I simply have to wait for it ?

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The team is still working on getting BT functioning on RPi3. Should be a couple days if I had to speculate on an ETA.

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Getting BT on the Pi in an operational state is a little complex, due to the need to replace BlueZ. It’s going to take quite some time to get it working properly.

Sam

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I don’t see any device:

root@osmc:~# hcitool dev
Devices:

after boot:
root@osmc:~# /etc/rc.d/bluetooth restart
-bash: /etc/rc.d/bluetooth: No such file or directory
root@osmc:~# systemctl status bluetooth.service

  • bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled)
    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.service.d
    `-local.conf
    Active: inactive (dead)
    Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
    Warning: Unit file changed on disk, ‘systemctl daemon-reload’ recommended.

And after restart of Service:
root@osmc:~# systemctl status bluetooth.service

  • bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled)
    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.service.d
    -local.conf Active: active (running) since Fri 2016-03-04 19:20:27 CET; 2s ago Docs: man:bluetoothd(8) Main PID: 1872 (bluetoothd) Status: "Running" CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service -1872 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Mar 04 19:20:27 osmc bluetoothd[1872]: Bluetooth daemon 5.23
Mar 04 19:20:27 osmc bluetoothd[1872]: Starting SDP server
Mar 04 19:20:27 osmc bluetoothd[1872]: Bluetooth management interface 1.10 initialized

Here is what I found in journal:
Mar 04 19:02:50 osmc hciattach[309]: Initialization timed out.
Mar 04 19:02:50 osmc hciattach[309]: bcm43xx_init
Mar 04 19:02:50 osmc systemd[1]: hciuart.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Mar 04 19:02:50 osmc systemd[1]: Failed to start Configure Bluetooth Modems connected by UART.
Mar 04 19:02:50 osmc systemd[1]: Unit hciuart.service entered failed state.

Any ideas ?

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Already covered above

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What’s different that’s stopping Bluetooth working on OSMC?
I’ve read Rasbian comes with bluetooth working using bluetooth-pi package. Can that package not be used?

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In a word, no. And for many reasons.

Supporting the Pi 3’s built in bluetooth in OSMC will require quite a bit of work, however it is being worked on.

Remember that the bluetooth driver was not even finished at the time the Pi foundation released the hardware to the public, so these things take a little time.

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No problem. I was just wondering what the difference was.

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What about getting the onboard bluetooth to work outside of OSMC? Say, when loading RetroArch?

Is there anything that can be done to do that or will it all rely on OSMC itself having the Bluetooth working?

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Any Eta on BT support?

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Can you provide a hint of expected BT support? Is is a matter of weeks or months? I don’t mean to be pressing though, My USB keyboard works fine.

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When is the ending reflective of a time yet to be?

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When it’s ready

Sam

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Ooooh, I’m sorry Sam. The answer was actually, “When it’s the Future”.

No points this round.

Now onto “Things that make you go hmmm” for $300.

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Hey,
Did anyone managed to get the built-in Bluetooth working on Raspberry Pi 3? I’m using the latest OSMC.

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It’s not ready just yet.

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The suspens is killing me…

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Bluetooth support is done:

I will get the team to test it and include it in the next update.

Sam

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Sam you’re a legend thanks for all the hard work it’s really appreciated?

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Awesome Sam.

Did you manage get feature of selecting between onboard WiFi or WiFi dongle in osmc settings that was mentioned in a thread.

No worries if not great get Bluetooth working.

Cheers