Raspberry Pi 3 - On Board Bluetooth Not Detected - Raspberry Pi Forums

i received first raspberry pi week ago , i've been having lot of fun playing it, i've been having problems getting on-board bluetooth set up. far can tell, bluetooth service active, can't detect built in bluetooth chip. if has experience fixing i'd appreciate (spent last 8 hours trying find answer on google no luck).

i'm new rpi , linux i'm not entirely sure information helpful. believe have latest version of jessie, , believe i've updated , installed of necessary bluetooth programs. if makes difference, hooked pitft 2.8" capacitive display. when run hciconfig, nothing pops up, , hcitools dev shows no devices available.

ok - if open terminal , type dmesg | grep "bluetooth" should see

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chris@dukla:~ $ dmesg | grep "bluetooth" [    6.044142] bluetooth: core ver 2.21 [    6.044258] bluetooth: hci device , connection manager initialized [    6.044286] bluetooth: hci socket layer initialized [    6.044307] bluetooth: l2cap socket layer initialized [    6.044372] bluetooth: sco socket layer initialized

pi3 - per sig not using onboard bt shouldn't make huge difference. dmesg dumps system log since last boot, if type no parameters see whole gory details , can scroll , down. grep "bluetooth" searches occurances of string bluetooth (note important use capital b)

anyway - if nothing above command have problem. best post entire contents of dmesg output in case.

if hardware ok. in case need package called bluetooth - can install (or check installed) typing

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sudo apt-get install bluetooth

once/if installed 99% of way there

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sudo bluetoothctl -a

should start bt command line utility (you need type quit exit it) , show default controller. if doesn't have hardware/firmware problem. if worked type

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scan

, set device pairing mode. should (after few seconds) see screen report found. thing note reported bt address, of form abef:gh:ij:kl.
if type

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trust ab  pair ab connect ab quit

after each of "ab" above press tab key - autocomplete rest of ef:gh:ij:kl .

, should done.

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