Hi Veit, On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Veit Guna <veit.guna@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > > I'm currently using the latest OSMC media center (successor of raspbmc) > on the raspberry pi 2. > It uses the bluez packages (5.12 AFAIR) for handling the bluetooth > connections. > > Connecting and using the ps3 remote (1st gen) works quite ok with that. > The problem I have is, that the remote doesn't seem to go to standby and > batteries drain very quickly (2-3 weeks). > > Before OSMC, I used raspbmc. It had the same problems initially. But a > user named "kitlaan" applied patches > to the original bluez packages to get standby working. After replacing > the original bluez packages with the > patched ones, standby worked and batteries lasted at least 6 months. > > One could easily recognize the standby when hitting a button on the > remote. It lagged a second before the button press > went through to kodi. After it had woken up, pressing a button worked > instantly - without a delay. > > Back then, the patch used the 4.98 version of bluez. Now I can see that > the latest official bluez version is 5.36. > Now I'm wondering, whether the patches have made it somehow into the > official bluez version. > > Testing with 5.12 showed, that standby didn't work as expected. Also > when using a IdleTimeout of 1 minute within > the input.conf. > > Basically one can get it to work with that (there are the patches > mentioned): > > https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Sony_PS3_BD_Remote > > Does anybody have a clue whether the patches - or some parts of them - > have made it into bluez? Check that you have the following patch: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg64073.html This will make sure all the references to the sockets are released which means the device can be disconnected if nothing else is using the link. -- Luiz Augusto von Dentz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
