Bluetooth on OPi3b

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Required Information

  • DietPi version | Bookworm
  • Distro version | aarch64 Linux 6.12.57-current-rockchip64
  • Kernel version | 6.12.57
  • Architecture | arm64
  • SBC model | OPi3b
  • Power supply used | 5V 3A
  • SD card used | Lexar 128G Class 10

Hi! First of all, I want to thank you for supporting the OPi3b! Your image works far better than those provided by the manufacturer. I even got the Panfrost driver working after installing Mesa and OpenGL libraries. I don’t think hardware acceleration worked right out of the box with Bookworm. The reason for downgrading to Bookworm was to see if I could get bluetooth working since that failed with Trixie.

Anyway, bluetooth is enabled with dietpi-config. However, there is no GUI tool to enable and configure it. Should I install blueman? bluetoothctl returns nothing. On Trixie I got as far as ‘agent registered’ but ‘scan on’ returns ‘no adapter found’. Restarting the service yields ‘condition unmet’.

I’m a little perplexed. On the upside, the game Sauerbraten runs fine and even confirms that it’s using Panfrost as a driver. The performance almost equals that of my RPi400.

Lastly, do you recommend the Chromium extension h.264y for YouTube video playback? My apologies if this issue has been addressed in the past but I’ve checked everywhere, including here, and I still can’t get bluetooth to work.

Thank you again for the hard work and support!