Rpi3 Sixad won't start, can't find bluetooth adapter. Please help.

dantoner

I'm about 8 hours into trying to fix this on my own, I rarely ever post anywhere for help, but it's the weekend and the kids are dying to play some old NES games with me.

Bluetooth died after I did a apt-get update and upgrade. I was hoping it would fix another issue which I forgot about now.

I uninstalled bluetooth, reinstalled it, I then ran chmod +x /usr/sbin/bluetoothd because bluetooth refused to start, after that I got it started but it now refuses to start on boot.

Bluetooth status gives:
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2016-05-21 08:50:22 CDT; 10min ago
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 1022 (bluetoothd)
Status: "Running"
CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
└─1022 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

May 21 08:50:22 retropie bluetoothd[1022]: Bluetooth daemon 5.23
May 21 08:50:22 retropie bluetoothd[1022]: Starting SDP server
May 21 08:50:22 retropie bluetoothd[1022]: Bluetooth management interface 1.9 initialized

and sixad --start gives:
No bluetooth adapters found on the system; will try again in 1 second.

Also I uninstalled and reinstalled the PS3 stuff from the retropie config menu.

The controller works plugged in but no longer connects via bluetooth.

Ideas? Thanks in advance.

PokeEngineer

Did you try downgrading Bluetooth from 1.1 to 1.0?

In case you didn't here is what you need to type in the terminal:

wget http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/p/pi-bluetooth/pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb
sudo reboot

dantoner

No but I'll try it. I get an error though.

dpkg: error processing archive pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb

PokeEngineer

The upgrade updates the on-board Bluetooth to 1.1 and that breaks in RetroPie.

PokeEngineer

It worked for me using SSH... Maybe try it in SSH?

dantoner

@RetroPieNerd

That's what I'm in, SSH on my machine. Not working for me.

PokeEngineer

Here is the post I got the info from. See if this helps...
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/905/lost-ps3-bluetooth-after-updating-raspbian

dantoner

Well no wonder it can't be found, you forgot the

wget http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/p/pi-bluetooth/pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb

part, mang.

Thanks though, ran it, rebooted, testing now.

dantoner

Works perfectly.

Bluetooth starts on boot again. As soon as it rebooted I plugged in the PS3 controller and unplugged it, instant sync.

PokeEngineer

You are welcome. I had the same problem too.

PokeEngineer

No need to downgrade anymore....

You just need to install raspberrypi-sys-mods

sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-sys-mods