I am using an orange pi to connect to BLE devices, and I would like to use the on board ble interface, I am using OPI3 LTS OS: Orange Pi Focal with Linux 5.10.75-sunxi64
when I run sudo hciconfig -a I can see devices available:
hci1: Type: Primary Bus: UART
BD Address: 10:11:12:13:14:15 ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 240:3
UP RUNNING PSCAN
RX bytes:213806 acl:0 sco:0 events:12843 errors:0
TX bytes:689392 acl:0 sco:0 commands:12843 errors:0
Features: 0xbf 0xff 0x8d 0xfe 0xdb 0x3d 0x7b 0xc7
Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
Link policy:
Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
Name: 'orangepi3-lts'
Class: 0x000000
Service Classes: Unspecified
Device Class: Miscellaneous,
HCI Version: 5.0 (0x9) Revision: 0x400
LMP Version: 5.0 (0x9) Subversion: 0x400
Manufacturer: Spreadtrum Communications Shanghai Ltd (492)
hci0: Type: Primary Bus: USB
BD Address: 00:1A:7D:DA:71:13 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8
DOWN
RX bytes:184866998 acl:8964 sco:0 events:5069260 errors:0
TX bytes:1669130 acl:9985 sco:0 commands:96182 errors:16
Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0xdb 0xff 0x5b 0x87
Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK
Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
The on board ble interface is hci1, so I shutdown my dongle hci0 and when I try doing a scan using bluetoothctl, I get this error Failed to start discovery: org.bluez.Error.NotReady
I can use the hci0 to do scan though and connect to devices when I bring it up and running, but not on board hci1.