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PI(3) recent bluetooth issues?

Posted: Friday 27 August 2021 18:23
by lost
Hello,

If you experience issues recently using bluetooth on PI3, this may be because patched firmware is not loaded anymore at boot due to a path mismatch, see hereunder:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... 8&t=318458

In my case, I use BT just for phones lookup/presence detection. Was 100% reliable since august updates (I only installed last week).
Looks now solved by a symbolic link:

Regards

Re: PI(3) recent bluetooth issues?

Posted: Friday 27 August 2021 19:49
by waltervl
lost wrote: Friday 27 August 2021 18:23 Looks now solved by a symbolic link:
What symbolic link? :-) I think you forgot something...

Re: PI(3) recent bluetooth issues?

Posted: Friday 27 August 2021 21:27
by lost
waltervl wrote: Friday 27 August 2021 19:49
lost wrote: Friday 27 August 2021 18:23 Looks now solved by a symbolic link:
What symbolic link? :-) I think you forgot something...
You're right:

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sudo ln -s  /lib/firmware/ /etc/firmware
Firmwares have always been located in /bin/firmware but current BT seeks them from unexisting /etc/firmware... Killing hci & re-launching /usr/bin/btuart script manually makes hciattach complaint clear.