Ubuntu Mate and bluetooth speaker issue

grzeslaw · 03-03-2016, 04:30 AM

Hi,

Some time ago, I bought a bluetooth speaker: JBL Charge 2+.
Sadly, I am unable to pair the device, it isn't even found when I search for speakers thru "blueman-manager"..

Some facts:
1. Blueman is used to make the connection.
2. Bluetooth is turned on.
3. Laptop: Lenovo E31-70:

Code:

root@e3170:~# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Host Bridge -OPI (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB xHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP MEI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev e3)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev e3)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev e3)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4352 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)

Code:

root@e3170:~# uname -a
Linux e3170 4.2.0-27-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 22 04:49:08 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Code:

root@e3170:~# dmesg |grep -i blue
[    7.427863] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20
[    7.427887] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[    7.427892] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[    7.427895] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[    7.427902] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[    7.446405] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 63
[    7.447408] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM20702A1 (001.002.014) build 0000
[    7.447700] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM20702A1-0489-e07a.hcd failed with error -2
[    7.447703] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Patch brcm/BCM20702A1-0489-e07a.hcd not found
[    8.433952] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[    8.433957] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[    8.433962] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[   18.683350] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   18.683361] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   18.683368] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[ 4768.097489] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 63
[ 4768.098502] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM20702A1 (001.002.014) build 0000
[ 4768.098528] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM20702A1-0489-e07a.hcd failed with error -2
[ 4768.098531] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Patch brcm/BCM20702A1-0489-e07a.hcd not found

Code:

root@e3170:~# hciconfig
hci0:   Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
        BD Address: 90:48:9A:FA:AC:68  ACL MTU: 1021:8  SCO MTU: 64:1
        UP RUNNING
        RX bytes:964 acl:0 sco:0 events:74 errors:0
        TX bytes:3561 acl:0 sco:0 commands:71 errors:0

Looks, that there is some issue with bluetooth firmware.. Not sure what should I do..

rokytnji · 03-03-2016, 07:40 AM

May help or not.

https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/n...in-linux-lite/

grzeslaw · 03-06-2016, 06:38 AM

Thanks for your feedback!

Sadly this solution didn't work for me ;/

When trying to find new devices, I get the following message in the logs:

Code:

Mar  6 13:36:09 e3170 org.blueman.Mechanism[549]: Exception AttributeError: "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'stdout'" in <bound method Tee.__del__ of <__main__.Tee object at 0x7f6709acd750>> ignored

Code:

root@e3170:~# systemctl -i status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since So 2016-03-06 13:42:58 CET; 3min 28s ago
     Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
 Main PID: 1019 (bluetoothd)
   Status: "Running"
   CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
           └─1019 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Mär 06 13:42:58 e3170 bluetoothd[1019]: Error adding Link Loss service
Mär 06 13:42:58 e3170 bluetoothd[1019]: Not enough free handles to register service
Mär 06 13:42:58 e3170 bluetoothd[1019]: Not enough free handles to register service
Mär 06 13:42:58 e3170 bluetoothd[1019]: Not enough free handles to register service
Mär 06 13:42:58 e3170 bluetoothd[1019]: Current Time Service could not be registered
Mär 06 13:42:58 e3170 bluetoothd[1019]: gatt-time-server: Input/output error (5)
Mär 06 13:42:58 e3170 bluetoothd[1019]: Not enough free handles to register service
Mär 06 13:42:58 e3170 bluetoothd[1019]: Not enough free handles to register service
Mär 06 13:42:58 e3170 bluetoothd[1019]: Sap driver initialization failed.
Mär 06 13:42:58 e3170 bluetoothd[1019]: sap-server: Operation not permitted (1)
root@e3170:~#

Code:

root@e3170:~# dmesg |grep -i blue |grep  error
[    3.879691] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM20702A1-0489-e07a.hcd failed with error -2

rokytnji · 03-06-2016, 10:25 AM

Ok, Those instructions worked on my Mint Mate 17 laptop. But I do not have a Broadcom bluetooth chip like you do. There are instructions for fixing the broadcom issue in Ubuntu 14.04/aka Mint 17 .

Quote:

c. For Broadcom Bluetooth adapters, downloading the firmware and copying it to the /lib/firmware folder.

1. Open your favorite terminal.

2. Run the following command to download the firmware file:

Then follow the rest of the steps. I can't tell what you did by by just saying it did not work and that you did not show the broadcom firmware is sitting in the folder they say it should sit in.

Code:

Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM20702A1-0489-e07a.hcd failed with error -2

Also, no readouts on updating blueman so I cannot see where you failed.

So sorry. I cannot help further. Good luck with it.

grzeslaw · 03-07-2016, 03:43 PM

OK, so what I did:
1. Open file: "/etc/bluetooth/audio.conf" (which doesn't exist) and put the following content there:

Code:

[General]

Enable = Source,Sink,Headset,Gateway,Control,Media
Disable = Socket

HFP=false

[A2DP]
SBCSources=1
MPEG12Sources=0

2. Add repo + install packages:

Code:

add-apt-repository ppa:cschramm/blueman
apt-get update && sudo apt-get install blueman pavucontrol pulseaudio-module-bluetooth -y

3. Download firmware and move it to libs:

Code:

wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/plugable/bin/fw-0a5c_21e8.hcd
cp fw-0a5c_21e8.hcd /lib/firmware /lib/firmware/brcm//BCM20702A1-0489-e07a.hcd

4. Reboot.

After all, I do not see errors in dmesg:

Code:

root@e3170:~# dmesg |grep -i blue
[    3.847319] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.20
[    3.847355] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[    3.847360] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[    3.847364] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[    3.847372] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[    3.863824] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 63
[    3.864819] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM20702A1 (001.002.014) build 1453
[    4.475649] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM20702A1 (001.002.014) build 1453
[    4.869863] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[    4.869867] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[    4.869870] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[    8.704989] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[    8.704999] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[    8.705005] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
root@e3170:~#

But bluetooth status still inform about "Not enough free handles to register service" and "gatt-time-server: Input/output error (5)":

Code:

root@e3170:~# systemctl -i status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mo 2016-03-07 22:40:44 CET; 24s ago
     Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
 Main PID: 1035 (bluetoothd)
   Status: "Running"
   CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
           └─1035 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Mär 07 22:40:44 e3170 bluetoothd[1035]: Not enough free handles to register service
Mär 07 22:40:44 e3170 bluetoothd[1035]: Not enough free handles to register service
Mär 07 22:40:44 e3170 bluetoothd[1035]: Current Time Service could not be registered
Mär 07 22:40:44 e3170 bluetoothd[1035]: gatt-time-server: Input/output error (5)
Mär 07 22:40:44 e3170 bluetoothd[1035]: Not enough free handles to register service
Mär 07 22:40:44 e3170 bluetoothd[1035]: Not enough free handles to register service
Mär 07 22:40:44 e3170 bluetoothd[1035]: Sap driver initialization failed.
Mär 07 22:40:44 e3170 bluetoothd[1035]: sap-server: Operation not permitted (1)
Mär 07 22:40:48 e3170 bluetoothd[1035]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.37 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource
Mär 07 22:40:48 e3170 bluetoothd[1035]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.37 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink
root@e3170:~#

And my bluetooth speaker is not found..

rokytnji · 03-07-2016, 07:56 PM

Good Luck.

link

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grzeslaw · 03-08-2016, 03:04 PM

I tried installing the .hex firmware from windows package without success,
I tried reinstalling all bluetooth packages from official and ppa:cschramm/blueman repo, without success,
I tried reinstalling the OS.. without success..

It seems to be some kind of bug which is unsolved permanently yet. It looks that I've no luck with that.. As I have many different linux issues on production servers, which are more worth to take care about, I need to stop wasting my time on investigation of this issue ;/ I will try gentoo and opensuse, maybe those distros have better drivers for bluetooth

If anyone have some solution for that, please post it here, I'm curious what could be the reason..