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Bluetooth for Broadcom devices on Arch Linux
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Broadcom bluetooth devices on Arch Linux

First read thoroughly the Arch Wiki entry on bluetooth Verify that your Broadcom bluetooth device is recognized with lsusb. You should see something like:

...
Bus 002 Device 005: ID xxxx:xxxx Lite-On Technology Corp. Broadcom BCM43142A0 Bluetooth Device
...

Install the appropriate firmware package from the AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=broadcom. In my case (BCM43142A0), I installed bcm43142a0-firmware.

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bcm43142a0-firmware/
makepkg -si

Then enable and start bluetooth.service

# systemctl enable bluetooth.service && systemctl start bluetooth.service
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