On Wed, 2022-02-09 at 13:48 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:32:30 -0800 Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: There are two bluetooth devices paired with my main computer. The connection is via this dongle: $ lsusb ... Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Two devices are paired: $ bluetoothctl paired-devices Device C0:15:DA:B9:77:39 Bluetooth Ergonomic Mouse Device 3B:0C:40:C7:35:16 TEWELL T-1 Both have problems:
I've never had any bluetooth device reliably connecting to anything (linux, windows, my car's audio, you name it). I've always suspected that "flakey" was mandated in the bluetooth standard.
A lucky Google hit has led me to a cure, which is to create /etc/udev/rules.d/50-usb_power_save.rules. This disables power saving to the bluetooth dongle. Read: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1303731/how-to-change-bluetooth-timeout-sett... to find the magic and also links to explanations.