My bluetooth headset/ Speaker is not showing

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Bluetooth audio device is not listed. I have tried searching for the fix but could not. I am new to linux system. Please do Help! Thank You.

Edit; I tried my best to edit my post to present my problem clear as per the guidance…
Here is my Output for the input inxi --full --admin --filter --width

  Kernel: 6.6.10-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.6-x86_64
    root=UUID=1ecf2cda-3d15-4425-8462-fa9ebb726129 rw quiet splash apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: GNOME v: 45.3 tk: GTK v: 3.24.39 wm: gnome-shell
    tools: gsd-screensaver-proxy dm: GDM v: 45.0.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire A515-54G v: V1.12
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: CML model: Doc_WC v: V1.12 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: 0000000000000000 uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: Insyde v: 1.12
    date: 08/23/2019
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 21.8 Wh (64.7%) condition: 33.7/47.8 Wh (70.5%)
    volts: 11.1 min: 11.2 model: LGC AP18C8K type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
    status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-10510U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Comet/Whiskey Lake note: check gen: core 10 level: v3 note: check
    built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8E (142)
    stepping: 0xC (12) microcode: 0xF8
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
    L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 445 high: 766 min/max: 400/4900 scaling:
    driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400 4: 400
    5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 766 bogomips: 36812
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: retbleed mitigation: Enhanced IBRS
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS, IBPB: conditional,
    RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
    ports: active: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9b41
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
    driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 545.xx+
    status: current (as of 2024-01; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Pascal code: GP10x
    process: TSMC 16nm built: 2016-2021 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 4
    link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d13
    class-ID: 0302
  Device-3: Quanta HD User Facing driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-5:2 chip-ID: 0408:a061
    class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.10 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.3
    compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
    alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :1
    note: <missing: xdpyinfo/xrandr>
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: ChiMei InnoLux 0x15e6 built: 2016 res: 1366x768
    dpi: 101 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
    ratio: 16:9 modes: 1366x768
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
    drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: iris device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast
    surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: iris inactive: wayland,device-2
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 23.3.3-manjaro1.1
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2)
    device-ID: 8086:9b41 memory: 7.31 GiB unified: yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl
    bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:02c8 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.6.10-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
    type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:02f0 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
    class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-10:3 chip-ID: 8087:0026
    class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
    v: 3.0 port: 5060 bus-ID: 00:17.0 chip-ID: 8086:282a rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 11.05 GiB (1.2%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD10SPZX-21Z10T0
    size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    tech: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1A02 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 693.76 GiB size: 681.8 GiB (98.28%) used: 11.05 GiB (1.6%)
    fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 296 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C pch: 58.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
  Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.48 GiB used: 2.6 GiB (34.7%)
  Processes: 273 Power: uptime: 9m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform
    avail: shutdown,reboot,suspend,test_resume image: 2.98 GiB daemons: upowerd,
    power-profiles-daemon, gsd-power Init: systemd v: 255 default: graphical
    tool: systemctl
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1198 libs: 321 tools: gnome-software,pamac
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 0 Compilers: clang: 16.0.6 gcc: 13.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9
    running-in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.3.32 ```
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Hi @Rekx, and welcome!

In order for us, or anyone for that matter, to be able to provide assistance, more information is necessary. To that end, please see:

Please also note and heed: Forum Rules - Manjaro

Hope you manage!

:bangbang: Tip: :bangbang:

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Thereby improving legibility and making it much easier for those trying to be of assistance.

:bangbang::bangbang: Additionally

If your language isn’t English, please prepend any and all terminal commands with LC_ALL=C. For example:

LC_ALL=C bluetoothctl

This will just cause the terminal output to be in English, making it easier to understand and debug.

Please edit your post accordingly.

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Hi, thank you for the help and i have updated my post accordingly. Please help me to get my bluetooth audio working.

Note:
Also to let you all know that the bluetooth audio pairing was working fine while i was testing with a live USB.

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Please provide the output of:

rfkill
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Here it is,

 0 bluetooth acer-bluetooth unblocked unblocked
 1 bluetooth hci0           unblocked unblocked
 2 wlan      phy0           unblocked unblocked ```
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Everything looks good to me, and I don’t have, or care for having bluetooth, so have no experience with it. So I won’t be able to help any further. Sorry.

:sob:

Perhaps someone else can.

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Hey, it is okay and thank your for your time . I appreciate it. Hope someone has the fix soon as i dont want to replace the OS just because of headset issue :sweat_smile:

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I have a number of blue tooth devices that I’ve had to scan/search for via the bluetooth device manager several times before they show up … even if they are actively polling for a connection… I’ve had to scan up to half a dozen times … once the device has been found and connected it usually remains in the device listing…

I’ve noticed if you are booting different partitions … you have to delete the device from the bluetooth manager devices list as the stored codes do not match … and then search several times to find it again…

Hope this helps …

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Thank you for sharing, for now i am using Only Manjaro os only not on multiple boots. i had tested few OS , installing Pulseaudio worked on Fedora Os, Linux Mint but i do not have proper knowledge on this. I tried to install Pulseaudio but i Cannot because of Pipewire i think.

ALSO as you said i scanned several times with my both audio devices with no success but yes my smartwatch is listed on scan.

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I would consider several aspects:

  • Your bluetooth headset, can be found by other devices? i.e. your phone.
  • Check bluetooth versions of each device, might help you narrow down the list of potential errors and incompatibilities.
  • Then check your drivers, are the right ones installed in your system? Bluetooth - ArchWiki
  • Check your headset documentation and look for information in related forums. They might give you a hint on which path you should be taking in this regard.
  • Consider that sometimes there are certain incompatibilities between devices and built-in bluetooth and bluetooth dongle. If you can, test it with both devices once your drivers are installed.
  • Try connecting other bluetooth devices to your computer to make sure is operating as its supposed to.
  • Sometimes bluetooth headsets have a small pairing window, by this I mean that the time it remains discoverable and open for pairing is quite small. You should check on that too

Archlinux docs and manjaro forums should have enough info to help you perform all these tests and prolly more.

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Thanks a lot for the help friend, i will for sure go through the steps again and explore forums / wiki for more help.

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if you still struggle after going through all those steps, share your findings here. Maybe it can give us a clearer picture of the issue you are facing. Good luck!

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Thank you, the fix was so simple. sorry for my ignorance cost me several hours. Thanks for the reminder finally got it working :grinning:

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Glad I could help :smiley:

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