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  1. #1
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    Enabling Bluetooth During Boot

    Building a mobile RPi 4 Kali box with an iclever foldable bluetooth keyboard. While I've figured out how to enable bluetooth with "systemctl start bluetooth.service" that doesn't help on startup!

    Have validated "AutoEnable=true" in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf per https://github.com/blueman-project/b...roubleshooting but it still doesn't start on reboot.

    Also tried the deprecated method of creating a "bluetooth-keyboard-auto-enable.rules" file in /etc/udev/rules.d (also didn't work) containing the following:
    ACTION=="add",
    SUBSYSTEM=="bluetooth",
    KERNEL=="hci[0-9]*",
    RUN+="/bin/hciconfig %k up"Hoping it's a variable I'm missing or something else obvious. Any help/feedback is welcome.

    Thanks!

  2. #2
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    You likely need to also enable the "hciuart" service - so, `systemctl enable --now hciuart && systemctl restart bluetooth` - this will enable (and start) the hciuart service, and then restart bluetooth.

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    Was able to solve this by modifying the 'crontab' file. Simple '@reboot' with 'root' user privileges running 'systemctl start bluetooth.service' allowed the keyboard to work at startup.

    Will be keeping crontab in mind for other services desired at startup.

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