Hey guys, how is it going?
I’m having some trouble running a pair of DualSense controllers over bluetooth.
When one controller is connected everything works fine, I’ve run it for several hours between weeks and no problem so far. But, when I try to connect a second controller to play with my girlfriend, after a random time one of the controllers disconnect and refuses to connect again.
It’s a pain in the ass to connect after that, usually we have to turn both controllers off and on again several times until we can connect both. Usually I just get tired of trying to reconnect the problematic controller and run it with a cable, which works fine every time.
The time between disconnects is completely random, varying from one controller not being able to connect from the beginning, to disconnecting after 15/30/40/60/90/120 minutes.
Here’s some infos about my bluetooth.
Hardware:
❯ lsusb | grep -i bluetooth
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0029 Intel Corp. AX200 Bluetooth
In bluetoothctl
:
[bluetooth]# list
Controller DC:41:A9:D7:A2:C5 BlueZ 5.63 [default]
[bluetooth]# show
Controller DC:41:A9:D7:A2:C5 (public)
Name: BlueZ 5.63
Alias: BlueZ 5.63
Class: 0x006c0104
Powered: yes
Discoverable: no
DiscoverableTimeout: 0x000000b4
Pairable: yes
UUID: A/V Remote Control (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Handsfree Audio Gateway (0000111f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: PnP Information (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Audio Sink (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Headset (00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Generic Access Profile (00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Audio Source (0000110a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Generic Attribute Profile (00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Device Information (0000180a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
Modalias: usb:v1D6Bp0246d053F
Discovering: no
Roles: central
Roles: peripheral
Advertising Features:
ActiveInstances: 0x00 (0)
SupportedInstances: 0x08 (8)
SupportedIncludes: tx-power
SupportedIncludes: appearance
SupportedIncludes: local-name
SupportedSecondaryChannels: 1M
SupportedSecondaryChannels: 2M
SupportedSecondaryChannels: Coded
Wireless radios:
❯ nmcli radio all
WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
enabled enabled enabled enabled
❯ rfkill list all
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Some packages versions:
❯ dnf --showduplicates list --installed | grep 'kernel\|iwl\|bluez'
abrt-addon-kerneloops.x86_64 2.14.6-9.fc35 @anaconda
bluez.x86_64 5.63-1.fc35 @updates
bluez-cups.x86_64 5.63-1.fc35 @updates
bluez-libs.i686 5.63-1.fc35 @updates
bluez-libs.x86_64 5.63-1.fc35 @updates
bluez-obexd.x86_64 5.63-1.fc35 @updates
bluez-tools.x86_64 0.2.0-0.17.git20170912.7cb788c.fc35 @fedora
iwl100-firmware.noarch 39.31.5.1-127.fc35 @updates
iwl1000-firmware.noarch 1:39.31.5.1-127.fc35 @updates
iwl105-firmware.noarch 18.168.6.1-127.fc35 @updates
iwl135-firmware.noarch 18.168.6.1-127.fc35 @updates
iwl2000-firmware.noarch 18.168.6.1-127.fc35 @updates
iwl2030-firmware.noarch 18.168.6.1-127.fc35 @updates
iwl3160-firmware.noarch 1:25.30.13.0-127.fc35 @updates
iwl3945-firmware.noarch 15.32.2.9-127.fc35 @updates
iwl4965-firmware.noarch 228.61.2.24-127.fc35 @updates
iwl5000-firmware.noarch 8.83.5.1_1-127.fc35 @updates
iwl5150-firmware.noarch 8.24.2.2-127.fc35 @updates
iwl6000-firmware.noarch 9.221.4.1-127.fc35 @updates
iwl6000g2a-firmware.noarch 18.168.6.1-127.fc35 @updates
iwl6000g2b-firmware.noarch 18.168.6.1-127.fc35 @updates
iwl6050-firmware.noarch 41.28.5.1-127.fc35 @updates
iwl7260-firmware.noarch 1:25.30.13.0-127.fc35 @updates
iwlax2xx-firmware.noarch 20211216-127.fc35 @updates
kernel.x86_64 5.15.13-200.fc35 @updates
kernel.x86_64 5.15.14-200.fc35 @updates
kernel.x86_64 5.16.1-60.1.vanilla.1.fc35 @kernel-vanilla-stable
kernel-core.x86_64 5.15.13-200.fc35 @updates
kernel-core.x86_64 5.15.14-200.fc35 @updates
kernel-core.x86_64 5.16.1-60.1.vanilla.1.fc35 @kernel-vanilla-stable
kernel-headers.x86_64 5.15.4-200.fc35 @updates
kernel-modules.x86_64 5.15.13-200.fc35 @updates
kernel-modules.x86_64 5.15.14-200.fc35 @updates
kernel-modules.x86_64 5.16.1-60.1.vanilla.1.fc35 @kernel-vanilla-stable
kernel-modules-extra.x86_64 5.15.13-200.fc35 @updates
kernel-modules-extra.x86_64 5.15.14-200.fc35 @updates
kernel-modules-extra.x86_64 5.16.1-60.1.vanilla.1.fc35 @kernel-vanilla-stable
libreport-plugin-kerneloops.x86_64 2.15.2-6.fc35 @anaconda
Infos about the controllers:
[bluetooth]# devices
Device D0:BC:C1:34:F5:29 DualSense - Red
Device D0:BC:C1:78:A6:DC DualSense - Black
[bluetooth]# info D0:BC:C1:34:F5:29
Device D0:BC:C1:34:F5:29 (public)
Name: Wireless Controller
Alias: DualSense - Red
Class: 0x00002508
Icon: input-gaming
Paired: yes
Trusted: yes
Blocked: no
Connected: no
WakeAllowed: yes
LegacyPairing: no
UUID: Human Interface Device... (00001124-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: PnP Information (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
Modalias: usb:v054Cp0CE6d0100
[bluetooth]# info D0:BC:C1:78:A6:DC
Device D0:BC:C1:78:A6:DC (public)
Name: Wireless Controller
Alias: DualSense - Black
Class: 0x00002508
Icon: input-gaming
Paired: yes
Trusted: yes
Blocked: no
Connected: no
WakeAllowed: yes
LegacyPairing: no
UUID: Human Interface Device... (00001124-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: PnP Information (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
Modalias: usb:v054Cp0CE6d0100
dmesg output (last time this issue have happened was January 18 late night):
https://gist.github.com/OliRafa/44e0b20cee44b36b513b3c6debb50561
As you can see, I’ve tried to update my system to kernel v5.16 to see if the changes made to iwlwifi could improve this problem, but after that started appearing this message here Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to read codec capabilities (-56)
(as can be seen in the dmesg output). It seemed harder to reconnect also, comparing to kernel v5.15.
Do you guys have any idea what’s being causing this issues? Is there any more logs I can provide to help?
Thanks in advance!