[SOLVED] [Pi Zero 2W] Bluetooth - no controller detected

[samcrxss]

Hello all,

After finally getting WiFi working on my 2W (unrelated), I have now hit a new hurdle - I can't get bluetooth working.

I have installed bluez and bluez-utils, enabled/started bluetooth.service, and can access bluetoothctl. However, the command bluetoothctl list comes back empty, and when I run bluetoothctl show, I get No default controller available.

Prior to this I've also rebooted and manually loaded the bluetooth, btbcm, and btusb modules (individually and together) but I'm not making progress here.

Please let me know if any log files would help and I'll pastebin them.

Edit: Hmm - this appears relevant: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15633&start=30#p67960

[samcrxss]

This did it: viewtopic.php?f=67&t=15583&hilit=bluetoothctl&start=10#p67778

I now have a controller listed:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[
CHG
] Controller E4:5F:01:55:E5:14 Pairable: yes
')

Then all I had to do was run this:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
:) root@sam-pizero22 /root > bluetoothctl 16:45 2021-12-30
Agent registered
[
CHG
] Controller E4:5F:01:55:E5:14 Pairable: yes
[bluetooth]# list
Controller E4:5F:01:55:E5:14 sam-pizero22 [default]
[bluetooth]# scan on
Failed to start discovery: org.bluez.Error.NotReady
[bluetooth]# power on
Changing power on succeeded
[
CHG
] Controller E4:5F:01:55:E5:14 Powered: yes
[bluetooth]# scan on
Discovery started
[
CHG
] Controller E4:5F:01:55:E5:14 Discovering: yes
[
NEW
] Device A4:C1:38:F2:29:AB A4-C1-38-F2-29-AB
[bluetooth]#
[
NEW
] Device 6C:5D:21:D2:AA:78 6C-5D-21-D2-AA-78
[bluetooth]#
')