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  • M Offline
    Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @d3r
    last edited by Sep 10, 2017, 2:15 AM

    @d3r said in No Country (Bluetooth) For Old Men:

    Getting close

    I thought so too, and I thank you for your help but I had one hell of a day and I am exhausted. Instead of hitting this thing with a hammer I’ll walk away and start again tomorrow.

    Go get yourself a beer. Sorry for all the troubles.

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      Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @d3r
      last edited by Sep 12, 2017, 2:50 AM

      @d3r

      I realized that I may have scared you off but I thought you might like to know that I got bluetooth to work.

      How? I took my mirror off the wall. Put in a new SD card with a new installation of Jessie 2017-07-05. Installed mpg123 as my mp3 player. Connected to bluetooth using your instructions. Saw the green check mark next to my speaker when right clicking the Volume icon in the menu bar and clicking on my speaker.

      Here comes the HOLY SHIT moment.

      I have exactly ONE mp3 on my Pi (HA) In the terminal I navigate to the mp3 file. I type mpg123 Nicole.mp3 (A song I wrote for my daughter many moons ago) and BLAM! The song starts playing, plays all the way through, no crash, no freeze. Just music to my ears!

      H O L Y S H I T !

      So, thank you for your help and advice and all the time you spent trying to get me up and running

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        d3r @Mykle1
        last edited by Sep 12, 2017, 12:05 PM

        @Mykle1 Awesome, I’m glad it worked out in the end.

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          Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @d3r
          last edited by Sep 14, 2017, 11:53 AM

          @d3r said in No Country (Bluetooth) For Old Men:

          Raspbian Stretch also changed some stuff about bluetooth, maybe take a look at that if you have a spare sd card lying around. I personally haven’t tried it yet.

          A few words of caution about Raspbian Stretch

          I’ve been doing some testing recently, mostly concerning CPU usage with different versions of Raspian and MM. Once I got bluetooth to work, I continued testing with newer and newer versions, until I got to Raspbian Stretch.

          The firmware update that accompanies Stretch disabled my Wifi and Bluetooth, and no amount of backward flashing to earlier firmware versions is fixing the issue. When I say disabled, I mean the Pi doesn’t recognize its own Wifi or Bluetooth adapter, as if it doesn’t have them. Google it BEFORE you attempt this upgrade.

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            d3r @Mykle1
            last edited by Sep 14, 2017, 11:36 PM

            @Mykle1 I haven’t tried stretch yet. I don’t have a spare microsd card. Did you check your /boot/config.txt?
            Maybe both wifi and bt are disabled in the config.

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              Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @d3r
              last edited by Sep 14, 2017, 11:44 PM

              @d3r

              No mention of wifi or BT at all in the /boot/config.txt file

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                Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @d3r
                last edited by Sep 15, 2017, 12:46 AM

                @d3r

                Seriously, I followed all the fixes I could find, to no avail. If you’re thinking about testing Stretch, I would advise you NOT to update your firmware until the problem is addressed. You won’t be able to go back as things stand right now.

                I’m going to move to PC based MM. Right now my mirror is just that, a mirror

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                  d3r @Mykle1
                  last edited by d3r Sep 15, 2017, 12:50 AM Sep 15, 2017, 12:49 AM

                  @Mykle1 Out of curiosity, you start with a fresh Stretch image or upgrade from Jessie?
                  I’m taking a look at my config. I have my onboard BT disabled.

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                    Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @d3r
                    last edited by Mykle1 Sep 15, 2017, 12:55 AM Sep 15, 2017, 12:52 AM

                    @d3r

                    I used a different SD card for each version that I tested. Once I used the Stretch SD card things went south. Going back to earlier cards (ALL OF THEM) was of no use. So, I did not upgrade. Also, all the versions on all the other SD cards worked fine. It was only when prompted to update the firmware for Stretch that this happened.

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                      d3r @Mykle1
                      last edited by Sep 15, 2017, 1:03 AM

                      @Mykle1 I’ll try to get an sd card and give Stretch a try. The extra sd card I have died.(PS: Don’t buy Lexar. Card only lasted for 6months). I use my PI3 for amazon alexa and MM. Aside from not having a spare card, main reason I haven’t tried stretch yet is because the alexa code on github does not support stretch yet.

                      These disable bt and wifi:

                      dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt
                      dtoverlay=pi3-disable-wifi
                      

                      @Mykle1 said in No Country (Bluetooth) For Old Men:

                      @d3r

                      It was only when prompted to update the firmware for Stretch that this happened.

                      Hang on, so you upgraded the same card from Jessie to Stretch? They recommend not doing that because it can potentially break stuff.
                      See this:

                      HOW TO GET RASPBIAN STRETCH
                      
                      As this is a major version upgrade, we recommend using a clean image; these are available from the Downloads page on our site as usual.
                      
                      Upgrading an existing Jessie image is possible, but is not guaranteed to work in every circumstance. If you wish to try upgrading a Jessie image to Stretch, we strongly recommend taking a backup first – we can accept no responsibility for loss of data from a failed update.
                      

                      https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-stretch/

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