Enable Bluetooth on Raspberry Pi3

Baffes

Hi,
in order to test my use case, i need to enable the BT connection. Is there a way to enable it? (even if it´s buggy)

Thank you!

Dieter_Dart

You can enable BT by the standard way. Use the button at the top or enable it via settings. We tried it to connect a BT speaker and it works fine.

Baffes

Unfortunately not. The slider can be moved, but does not stay in the enabled position. Device is a brand new Model B+

Dieter_Dart

That's strange. When we used it, it worked absolutely fine. But to be honest currently we have connected the speaker via 3.5 directly to the touchscreen.

I now have tested it here on my test system and BT seems to work fine. I enabled BT via settings and all other BT devices around were found.

Baffes

I know :neutral: tried apps with BT access to enable it but no luck so far. Everything else works like a charm.

schake

Bluetooth doesn't currently work on the B+ since it uses a new and different chip from the older B. If you absolutely need it for your application, I'd recommend using the B.

Baffes

Alright, thanks for the clarification. Any chance to see a new build for the b+ soon?

IKS

It is very high in our priority list, but we can't provide any estimations yet.

mcpat

Hopefully in the near future, have a b+ and need BT, already bought a license 😉

xdwl

Bluetooth support (RPI 3b+) is keeping me off the os for now

IKS

Its in our top 5 list. Stay tuned!

xdwl

Is bluetooth problem solved?

IKS

No, B+ refuses to load the updated firmware. We don't know why.

IAmOrion

I'm new to the Emteria party - I have an RPi 3B+, and from my understanding BT doesn't work - but is that BT as a whole, or just the onboard BT?

For my usage, I need BT, but I'm quite happy to just get a BT USB if that's what's needed - so is it BT doesn't work full-stop, or it just doesn't work with the inbuilt BT?

Nicore

Hi! I've the same problem: RPI 3B+ with unsupported on-board BT. Without BT my application is completely useless... idea to solve the problem? Is there a BT usb doongle that is working with 3B+?

lucadaddabbo

Hi. Any news on the bluetooth support for the 3B+?

viper91180

anything new to this issue yet? anyone used a bt dongle with success?

roxette

You guys need to disable the on-board bluetooth module by adding the following line to config.txt

dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt

After that plug your USB bluetooth dongle & reboot.

In my case my MSI Bluetooth dongle wasn't working because i assume there is missing driver.
If any of you had success with his own bluetooth dongle then post feedback here.

roxette

The attached logcat assumes that my USB bluetooth dognle is ttyAMA0
Which is loaded from /etc/bluetooth/bt_vendor.conf
Is that why it doesn't work?

BT_Logcat.txt

roxette

Hi,
Regarding all the above replies suggesting to use a USB BT dongle, Is there anyone who actually owns it in order to verify whether it works or not?
P.S. My USB BT works fine using Raspbian stretch and LibreElec after i disabled the on-board bluetooth the same way i described above.