{"id":1545,"date":"2018-12-23T11:09:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T16:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2018-12-23T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T16:09:48","slug":"bluetooth-on-ubuntu-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1545","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth on Ubuntu 16.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to pair headphones to my Ubuntu desktop and couldn&#8217;t do it because Bluetooth refused to turn on. My first instinct was to check if Bluetooth was disabled in BIOS, but this Lenovo K450 doesn&#8217;t have that option. Here&#8217;s how it was fixed:<\/p>\n<p>System Settings &gt; Bluetooth, showed Bluetooth off. Turning it on still showed &#8220;Bluetooth is disabled&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Checking if it was software disabled checked out also:<br \/>\n<code>rfkill list bluetooth<\/code><br \/>\nshowed that it was not blocked.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I found it was disabled in the Bluetooth configuration file. To enable, edit <code>\/etc\/bluetooth\/main.conf<\/code> and add the line:<br \/>\n<code>AutoEnable=true<\/code><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/67758\/how-can-i-deactivate-bluetooth-on-system-startup\">Ask Ubuntu Reference<\/a><br \/>\nThen restart Bluetooth:<br \/>\n<code>sudo service bluetooth restart<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to pair headphones to my Ubuntu desktop and couldn&#8217;t do it because Bluetooth refused to turn on. My first instinct was to check if Bluetooth was disabled in BIOS, but this Lenovo K450 doesn&#8217;t have that option. Here&#8217;s how it was fixed: System Settings &gt; Bluetooth, showed Bluetooth off. Turning it on still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}