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In order to work the Bose QC35 Headset Bluetooth do the following:
- sudo pacman -Syu pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-bluetooth bluez bluez-libs bluez-utils
- turn off bluetooth from your computer
- sudo btmgmt ssp of
- gpasswd -a YOUR_USER lp
@muhammad-saleh
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muhammad-saleh commented Nov 26, 2018

Thank you :) works perfectly on Manjaro 4.19

@sholmesy
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Stumbled across this, saved me from going insane. Thanks man.

Is there any info on what this actually does?

Specifically why the need for ssp of and what adding the user to the lp group provides.

@hosseinsalahi
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👍

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WeissP commented Sep 24, 2019

Super! works perfectly, thank you : )

@andrealmar
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ghost commented Dec 14, 2019

That is a really helpful gist :D Thank your very much @andrealmar

@andrealmar
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I’m glad you like it @Liberatys

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jwj1217 commented Jan 12, 2020

After I initiate these steps, do you recommend using the Arch Bluetooth wiki approach from the command line? Do you use Bose Connect at all to initiate pairing on the headphones or do you hold the power switch for 2 seconds to initiate the pairing process? I'm currently running Arch with plasma desktop and have not gotten the headphones to pair.

@andrealmar
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@jwj1217 I'm not using Arch Linux anymore but when I've used I just paired normally with my QC35. I wasn't using Bose Connect. Are you using pulseaudio?

@Blatzar
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Blatzar commented Feb 3, 2020

@jwj1217 The Linux kernel fucked up Bluetooth for Bose QC35 around version 5.13, I suggest downgrading the kernel firstly. I couldn't get the headset to connect automatically, I need to hold down to pair before I connect with bluetoothctl connect XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX, no Bose app needed.

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woopstar commented Feb 19, 2020

$ sudo btmgmt ssp off
Set Secure Simple Pairing for hci0 failed with status 0x11 (Invalid Index)

I'm on Arch Linux using Plasma 5.

$ uname -a
Linux x1-carbon 5.5.4-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat, 15 Feb 2020 00:36:29 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

@alexBeuth
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$ sudo btmgmt ssp off
Set Secure Simple Pairing for hci0 failed with status 0x11 (Invalid Index)

I'm on Arch Linux using Plasma 5.

$ uname -a
Linux x1-carbon 5.5.4-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat, 15 Feb 2020 00:36:29 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Did you ever figured out a solution? I have the same problem

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jwj1217 commented Apr 10, 2020 via email

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jwj1217 commented Apr 10, 2020 via email

@johnynfulleffect
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Worked great on arch!

@andrealmar
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Worked great on arch!

Thanks @johnynfulleffect

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the01rch commented Nov 1, 2020

tx andrealmar for sharing this, but if you want to use microphone on bluetooth you need to switch profile to HSP/HFP and installing offono to have mics working but it is still not great because with this profile HPF you have a noise sound in the background that is very anoying i try "Enable Echo/Noise-Cancellation" to /etc/pulse/default.pa but i still have this anoying sound...

@LiShi2269
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Worked great on arch!

@h4xnoodle
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tx andrealmar for sharing this, but if you want to use microphone on bluetooth you need to switch profile to HSP/HFP and installing offono to have mics working but it is still not great because with this profile HPF you have a noise sound in the background that is very anoying i try "Enable Echo/Noise-Cancellation" to /etc/pulse/default.pa but i still have this anoying sound...

is that just due to bluetooth being single channel? the QC35s made that horrible sound on Windows/Mac for me as well, when the microphone and speakers are both 'in use'.

@lindelleric
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$ sudo btmgmt ssp off
Set Secure Simple Pairing for hci0 failed with status 0x11 (Invalid Index)

I'm on Arch Linux using Plasma 5.

$ uname -a
Linux x1-carbon 5.5.4-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat, 15 Feb 2020 00:36:29 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I got this as well. Does anyone know how to fix this?

@agustiner
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This works. To get the microphone working, I had to also replace

load-module module-bluetooth-policy 

with

load-module module-bluetooth-policy auto_switch=2

in /etc/pulse/default.pa.

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