Rpi 1 + iPhone 6 + official bluetooth dongle does not work

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I’ve not found any official information about this, so I apologize if this was discussed before elsewhere.

I have the latest OSMC fresh install (2018-01-1) on my RPi 1, using the official OSMC bluetooth dongle I’ve bought recently and an iPhone 6 running iOs 11.2.5.

Pairing from the GUI never worked: The phone is discovered, shown on the list but when I pair and enter a pin code in OSMC then the pairing process fails and my iPhone does not ask for the pin code.

So I used Bluetoothctl from command line on earlier version (forgot which one), and that worked. Until now, that i have a fresh new install.

Bluetoothctl starts and I find the iPhone but pairing just does not work.
Is there a bug which renders even the official dongle to work correctly and I should stop experimenting for a while?

[CHG] Device 64:9A:BE:A1:89:F5 RSSI: 39
[Somez’s iPhone]# info 64:9A:BE:A1:89:F5
Device 64:9A:BE:A1:89:F5
Name: Somez’s iPhone
Alias: Somez’s iPhone
Class: 0x7a020c
Icon: phone
Paired: no
Trusted: yes
Blocked: no
Connected: yes
LegacyPairing: yes
…

[Somez’s iPhone]# pair 64:9A:BE:A1:89:F5
Attempting to pair with 64:9A:BE:A1:89:F5
Failed to pair: org.bluez.Error.AuthenticationFailed

I might recall succeeding earlier by initiating the pairing form the iPhone and making it a trusted through bluetoothctl. However osmc is not shown on the list of BT devices on my iPhone anymore. I don’t know why.
It’s set to discoverable mode…

I appreciate your help.

Thank you.

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Did you install the A2DP package?

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No. I thought that’s part of the default installation. Let me do it now.

Should the pairing work from the GUI with an iOS device?

4

If you install A2DP, yes.
But A2DP is experimental and isn’t working properly since Debian Stretch. This is being worked on.

5

Package is a2dp-app-osmc?

Thanks Sam.

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Yes

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Well, I was somehow able to pair using bluetoothctl (doing it form the GUI just doesn’t work, no matter how hard I try). OSMC still does not show up as a target device when playing music on my iPhone and it disconnects after 1-2 minutes on it’s own.

Sam, if you say this is the best it can do, then I give up for now and wait for the next update.
Thank you.