Bluetooth Mouse Connection Issues [Solved]

[josevidal]

Hi @yuiquest, I had too (or have because it should continue to do so when I receive back the mouse after sharing it with another user).
In order not to have the disconnection problem I do the whole pairing process via commands. I thought it was my mouse or from using a very old apple mac whose drivers are not free. matching with commands does not give me any problems

View the status of the service (I use sysVint):
sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth status

To activate the service with sysVinit:
sudo service bluetooth start

To check that BT is present and working
hcitool dev

Then I enter the bluetooth console with
bluetoohctl

When I am inside the console I do

To see the system drivers or devices
list

View details of the driver or device
show

View devices associated to the system
devices

Device information
info “device” or MAC (without quotes, depending on the name in devices)

The above is not necessary but I like to see how the system is working before touching anything. Then for pairing, I scan first
scan on

If the bluetooth is not on I turn it on with
power on

Pairing
pair MAC

To connect
connect MAC

To authenticate
trust MAC

Then to finish I do
scan off

I usually copy the mac and paste it to get the commands in quickly, but you can also type the commands even if the scan on output is refreshed.

Let me know if you have tried it or if it works or not.

[yuiquest]

I am using this mouse with MacBook, and it works perfectly fine there, so I don't think it's a battery issue. The battery is also fully charged.

I will try adjusting the idle timeout settings later.

[yuiquest]

Thank you all for your responses.

I have edited the idle timeout in /etc/bluetooth/input.conf. The file originally had idle timeout=30 commented out. I uncommented it and set it to idle timeout=0.

I’ve been using it for a few hours now, and the mouse connection hasn’t dropped yet. I believe the issue is likely resolved, but I will report back if there are any changes.

[LinuxSpring1]

@yuiquest please do not forget to mark your topic as Solved and accept the post by CharlesV as the correct answer. I think that is the solution that worked for you.

[yuiquest]

Thank you for letting me know. This was my first post, so I wasn't fully aware of the rules.

I have marked the topic as "Solved" and set CharlesV's response as the "Correct Answer." I hope I did it correctly.

[CharlesV]

Thank you for letting me know. This was my first post, so I wasn't fully aware of the rules.

I have marked the topic as "Solved" and set CharlesV's response as the "Correct Answer." I hope I did it correctly.

Glad to hear it is resolved.