I tried to connect a number of devices: Samsung pods, BT speaker, MPOW selfie stick.
None were found either with the gui (Pair Device) or bluetoothctl scan.
I should mention I have a dual boot desktop with Win 10. But this apparently causes the need to re-pair devices. In my case, they are not even seen.
I had this problem previously and managed somehow to connect the pods (unfortunately I didn’t document how), but due to other issues I had to reinstall Fedora, and have not been able to repeat it.
I have set debug on bluetoothd and recorded btmon output (not sure how to share the file…) for these bluetoothctl commands:
root@A10:~# hciconfig
hci0: Type: Primary Bus: USB
BD Address: 14:2D:27:DB:45:46 ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1
UP RUNNING
RX bytes:1317 acl:0 sco:0 events:109 errors:0
TX bytes:8040 acl:0 sco:0 commands:105 errors:0
root@A10:~# bluetoothctl
Agent registered
[bluetooth]# power on
[bluetooth]# Changing power on succeeded
[bluetooth]# scan on
[bluetooth]# SetDiscoveryFilter success
[bluetooth]# hci0 type 7 discovering on
[bluetooth]# Discovery started
[bluetooth]# [CHG] Controller 14:2D:27:DB:45:46 Discovering: yes
[bluetooth]# hci0 type 7 discovering off
[bluetooth]# hci0 type 7 discovering on
[bluetooth]# scan off
[bluetooth]# Failed to stop discovery: org.bluez.Error.InProgress
[bluetooth]# power off
[bluetooth]# [CHG] Controller 14:2D:27:DB:45:46 PowerState: on-disabling
[bluetooth]# Failed to set power off: org.bluez.Error.Failed
[bluetooth]# [CHG] Controller 14:2D:27:DB:45:46 PowerState: off
System info:
root@A10:~# cat inxi.txt
System:
Kernel: 6.13.8-200.fc41.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
Console: pty pts/5 wm: kwin_wayland DM: SDDM Distro: Fedora Linux 41 (KDE
Plasma)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: 500-339 v: N/A
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 3 serial: N/A
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 2B17 v: 1.0 serial: N/A part-nu: F3F04AA#ABL
UEFI: AMI v: 80.11 date: 03/10/2015
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech MK700 serial: <filter>
charge: 70% (should be ignored) status: discharging
Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Marathon Mouse/Performance Plus
M705 serial: <filter> charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
Info: quad core model: AMD A10-7800 Radeon R7 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G
bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Steamroller rev: 1 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3500 min/max: 1400/3500 boost: enabled cores: 1: 3500
2: 3500 3: 3500 4: 3500 bogomips: 27949
Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: radeon v: kernel arch: GCN-2 ports:
active: none empty: DVI-D-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:130f
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R5 430
OEM R7 240/340 Radeon 520 OEM] vendor: Pegatron driver: radeon v: kernel
arch: GCN-1 pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: DVI-I-1,HDMI-A-1
empty: none bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6611 temp: 48.0 C
Device-3: Logitech HD Webcam C510 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-2:4 chip-ID: 046d:081d
Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 24.1.6 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: radeon display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 pos: right model: ViewSonic VA2405-FHD res: 1920x1080
hz: 60 dpi: 93 diag: 604mm (23.8")
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 pos: primary,left model: HP 23er res: 1920x1080 hz: 60
dpi: 96 diag: 584mm (23")
API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi device: 1 drv: radeonsi
device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: radeonsi surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11:
drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.2.4 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: OLAND (radeonsi LLVM 19.1.0 DRM 2.50
6.13.8-200.fc41.x86_64) device-ID: 1002:6611
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.304 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: cpu driver: N/A
device-ID: 10005:0000
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: radeontop wl: wayland-info
x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1022:780d
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland/Hainan/Cape
Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7000 Series] vendor: Pegatron
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:aab0
Device-3: Logitech HD Webcam C510 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 1-2:4 chip-ID: 046d:081d
API: ALSA v: k6.13.8-200.fc41.x86_64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: n/a (root, process) with:
1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom BCM43142 802.11b/g/n vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: N/A pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 05:00.0
chip-ID: 14e4:4365
Device-3: Realtek RTL8153 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter driver: r8152 type: USB
rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 6-2.2:3 chip-ID: 0bda:8153
IF: enp0s16f0u2u2 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-4: Realtek RTL88x2bu [AC1200 Techkey] driver: rtw_8822bu type: USB
rev: 2.1 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 6-2.3:5 chip-ID: 0bda:b812
IF: wlp0s16f0u2u3 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth Device driver: btusb v: 0.8
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 4-3:2 chip-ID: 0a5c:216c
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 2.27 TiB used: 494.8 GiB (21.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST1500DL003-9VT16L size: 1.36 TiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> temp: 28 C
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Crucial model: CT1000MX500SSD1 size: 931.51 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> temp: 34 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 1.36 TiB used: 32.79 GiB (2.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 424.3 MiB (43.6%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda2
ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 19.4 MiB (3.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-4: /home size: 1.36 TiB used: 32.79 GiB (2.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 6.9 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
GPU: device: radeon temp: 48.0 C device: radeon temp: 5.0 C
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 30.27 GiB used: 3.33 GiB (11.0%)
Processes: 319 Power: uptime: 47m wakeups: 0 Init: systemd v: 256
target: graphical (5) default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm pm: flatpak pkgs: 8
Compilers: N/A Shell: Bash v: 5.2.32 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.37