SOLVED: Guide to get RPi3 & Zero W internal Bluetooth working

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    • November 27, 2016 at 2:31 am #11023
      Re4son
      Keymaster

      Hi everyone,

      I’ve finally gotten around to look into the Rasperry Pi 3 internal bluetooth issue and found a way to get it to work.
      The following guide works with Sticky Finger’s Kali-Pi and vanilla kali if you install the re4son-kernel:

      THE NEW RE4SON KERNEL DOES THE ENTIRE SETUP AUTOMATICALLY, no manual configuration required. It supports all Pi’s (1,2,3,Zero, Zero W)
      Just head over to the re4son-kernel page for the installation guide.

      Happy hacking,
      Re4son

    • February 1, 2017 at 1:55 am #11126
      vavavoom
      Participant

      Hello Re4son,

      Does this turn on bluetooth automatically on boot up or do I have to type in the commands each time? Thanks

    • February 22, 2017 at 8:15 pm #11263
      wilsonb
      Participant

      Good question above..
      I will write a “Pairing script” to easily run those commands to pair different devices. Is this nessesary or just running [bluetoothctl] ?

      From the instructions, hard to tell where Vanilla Section stops and where StickyFingers image version starts.

      I got an error, so assume will have to install items above. Not sure what’s already “baked in”
      [bluetooth]# scan on
      Failed to start discovery: org.bluez.Error.NotReady

      Update: looks like items are already installed on Sticky Image

    • February 22, 2017 at 8:22 pm #11264
      wilsonb
      Participant

      After typing in
      root@kali-pi:~# dpkg -i pi-bluetooth_0.1.1_armhf.deb
      (Reading database … 193333 files and directories currently installed.)
      Preparing to unpack pi-bluetooth_0.1.1_armhf.deb …
      Unpacking pi-bluetooth (0.1.1) over (0.1.1) …
      Setting up pi-bluetooth (0.1.1) …
      Job for hciuart.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
      See “systemctl status hciuart.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.
      hciuart.service couldn’t start.

      Journalctl shows;

      — Unit hciuart.service has begun starting up.
      Feb 23 07:18:51 kali-pi hciattach[1435]: Initialization timed out.
      Feb 23 07:18:51 kali-pi hciattach[1435]: bcm43xx_init
      Feb 23 07:18:51 kali-pi systemd[1]: hciuart.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
      Feb 23 07:18:51 kali-pi systemd[1]: Failed to start Configure Bluetooth Modems connected by UART.
      — Subject: Unit hciuart.service has failed
      — Defined-By: systemd
      — Support: https://www.debian.org/support
      —
      — Unit hciuart.service has failed.
      —
      — The result is failed.
      Feb 23 07:18:51 kali-pi systemd[1]: hciuart.service: Unit entered failed state.
      Feb 23 07:18:51 kali-pi systemd[1]: hciuart.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
      Feb 23 07:18:54 kali-pi wpa_supplicant[463]: wlan0: Failed to initiate sched scan
      Feb 23 07:19:57 kali-pi wpa_supplicant[463]: wlan0: Failed to initiate sched scan
      lines 2056-2091/2091 (END)

    • February 22, 2017 at 9:01 pm #11266
      wilsonb
      Participant

      So using Sticky image, continued with the steps starting at;
      “Login as root and install the necessary Bluetooth packages, firmware and rules:”
      A lot of this was already installed..

      and got farther with bluetooth,

      it sees it, trusted and paired..
      however, connection with wireless keyboard is shady..

      [bluetooth]# connect 20:73:00:7B:x:x
      Attempting to connect to 20:73:00:7B:x:x
      [CHG] Device 20:73:00:7B:x:x Connected: yes
      Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed
      [CHG] Device 20:73:00:7B:x:x Connected: no

    • February 22, 2017 at 9:26 pm #11268
      Re4son
      Keymaster

      Hi wilsonb,

      That’s odd. I’ve been using the Logitech K810 without any problems.
      The only issues I have with it is the lag, not too bad but a tiny bit annoying ( Raspbian’s the same though).

      I haven’t done the same endurance test with the latest kernel (Re4son 4.4.49 #1) which one are you using?

    • February 22, 2017 at 10:29 pm #11270
      wilsonb
      Participant

      Heya..
      Thanks for reply..
      I havent updated Kernel form baked STicky yet.. Should be same

    • February 22, 2017 at 10:34 pm #11271
      Re4son
      Keymaster

      I updated Sticky two days ago and included a new kernel (should not make any difference though) and nexmon drivers.

    • February 23, 2017 at 12:22 am #11275
      wilsonb
      Participant

      Just a thought…
      Maybe put a key symbol like * infront of items that are already done in Sticky.

    • February 23, 2017 at 1:48 am #11279
      Re4son
      Keymaster

      Good idea.

      In the manual installation guide, correct?

    • February 23, 2017 at 3:05 am #11280
      wilsonb
      Participant

      Yes sir.. Just so folks know which part to skip.

    • February 23, 2017 at 3:11 am #11281
      Re4son
      Keymaster

      Will do. Give me a day or two.

      Thanks for sharing your ideas.

    • February 23, 2017 at 3:50 am #11282
      wilsonb
      Participant

      Yes sir.. Just so folks know which part to skip.

      Example; I just did Setup OpenVASs section, because I don’t know if it was already done.. It’s taking FOREVER… then created the file
      /etc/systemd/system/greenbone-security-assistant.service.d/local.conf
      and it was already there with the text, so now thinking this all was already done.

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