Bluetooth - getting really tired of this...

[seamusdemora]

Describe the bug

This is about ongoing issues I have with Bluetooth on my bullseye system. Driving me crazy... it works for a while - and then it doesn't. Very frustrating...

Anyway - before I go to the trouble of filing another bug report, I need to ask if bullseye is being supported here. I was told last week that it wasn't. If not, guess there's not much point in filing a report.

Please advise.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

use bluetooth

Device (s)

Raspberry Pi 3 Mod. A+

System

will comply after I get an answer to my question

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[JamesH65]

Our current release is Bookworm, the previous version, Bullseye (our legacy release) usually gets security updates only. Does the problem exhibit on Bookworm?

[seamusdemora]

I would expect that it does; it has since at least buster - the first OS that I tried to use BT (I made notes).

But I haven't actually attempted it on bookworm yet as I've been too distracted trying to get it to work on bullseye.

However, I have a nifty idea for someone like you to test this quickly:

1. Get a fresh bookworm Lite on any recent model (3 & later) Rpi
2. Get a cheap (inexpensive) BT speaker
3. Install mpg123 - a command line audio player
4. Get a soundtrack of some sort - I got mine here using yt-dlp
5. On the RPi - using whatever tools are available under Lite, try to play the soundtrack through from beginning to end (~ 8 hrs). This is "The Test" - 8 continuous hrs!
6. If 8 hrs is too large a soundtrack, you can put mpg123 in an infinite loop running bg as follows:

nohup mpg123 --loop -1 rainstorm.mp3 &

Whaddya' say?