Dear Armbian Zen Masters,

Please, help me turn on bluetooth on my Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 H5 board (running armbian focal server). This board is up to date (apt update and upgrade).

I've enabled bluetooth support from armbian-config on this board. But, bluetoothctl is not working (gets stuck in waiting for response on command execution). Wifi is working fine on this board.

(I could easily use bluetoothctl on my khadas vim3 pro board with "current armbian xfce desktop" on it)

Waiting for your response.

(Please, find the relevant board info below.)

Thanks in advance,

Spherulite.

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Relevant Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 Board Info:

1. uname --all :

Linux opi0p2 5.10.60-sunxi64 #21.08.1 SMP Wed Aug 25 18:29:57 UTC 2021 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

2. /etc/armbian-release :

# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
BOARD=orangepizeroplus2-h5
BOARD_NAME="Orange Pi Zero Plus 2"
BOARDFAMILY=sun50iw2
BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build
BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=d3386b548-dirty
DISTRIBUTION_CODENAME=focal
DISTRIBUTION_STATUS=supported
VERSION=21.08.6
LINUXFAMILY=sunxi64
ARCH=arm64
IMAGE_TYPE=stable
BOARD_TYPE=conf
INITRD_ARCH=arm64
KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image
BRANCH=current

3. This is what I got from armbianmonitor -u command:

root@opi0p2:~# armbianmonitor -u
System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to Please post the URL in the forum where you've been asked for.

28 minutes ago, spherulite said:

System diagnosis information will now be uploaded to Please post the URL in the forum where you've been asked for.

So...where is it?

 

  

28 minutes ago, spherulite said:

Please, find the relevant board info below.

All relevant information are within armbianmonitor -u output.

If -u does not work try -U and use a pasting service (like paste.debian.org for example) to provide logs.

Thanks Werner for your suggestions.

-u switch was not working but -U worked.

tried using paste.debian.org or paste.debian.net, neither of those worked.

Anyway, I'm attaching compressed (7zipped) .txt file containing the output of "armbianmonitor -U" on my Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 (H5) board, for your consideration.

 

Regards,

Spherulite.

armbianmonitor-U.7z

I'll start by saying I don't own the board, but as this has come up and seems to be a problem across many boards using the same SoC and bits, it would appear on its face that the fix is probably generally the same across them all. Give or take a few differences?

 

My github reference to the issue: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/1352#issuecomment-952077351

 

I've included two patches you could test that I made for 5.10.y as that appears to be the kernel ur using.

 

One thing I do not mention in the github issue is I also include the following to /etc/modules

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
bluetooth
hidp
rfcomm
bnep
hci_uart

 

 

002-sun50i-h5-orangepi-zero-plus2-rfkill-gpio.patch 001-sun50i-h5-orangepi-zero-plus2-bluetooth-support.patch