Bluetooth switch cannot be turned off.

[Cosmosiai]

What Happened?

it is impossible to turn off the Bluetooth from the settings, although there is a switch there. When Wi-Fi turns off, Bluetooth turns on automatically even though I didn't press anything

Steps to Reproduce

1. turn on Bluetooth

2. go to settings

3. try turning off the Bluetooth from there.

4. turn off Wi-Fi

5. turn off Bluetooth

6. restart your computer

Expected Behavior

All switches should work

auto-on Bluetooth should not work or there must be a setting for this

OS Version

7.x (Horus)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

Dual-core Intel® Core(TM) i3-8145U CPU @ 2.10GHz
Intel® UHD Graphics 620
Memory: 12 GB
496 GB storage (NVMe SSD)

[jeremypw]

My understanding it that the Settings Bluetooth plug is intended for managing paired devices and therefore requires Bluetooth to be "on". I agree the presence of an operable switch in the settings plug contradicts this and is pointless if it just automatically turns on. I think this is an issue with the settings plug not the wingpanel indicator though and this report should be transferred to that project.

[stan-janssen]

So the Switchboard plug Bluetooth turns on the Bluetooth radio as soon as you open de plug. kind of understand the reasoning: if you go into that panel, you probably want to do something with Bluetooth, but it might be confusing.

I'm not sure if I'm reading the bug report correctly, but I think there is also a complaint that you cannot turn off Bluetooth using the switchboard plug. That is something that I solved in this PR: elementary/panel-bluetooth#191. It was some weird interaction between Switchboard and Wingpanel. See the video in that PR.

[jeremypw]

Issue reopened as previous fix is likely to be reverted.

[gcustodioc]

I'm experiencing a similar issue on elementary OS 7.1 Horus with BlueZ 5.64.

What happens:

1. Disable Bluetooth through the system settings GUI
2. Try to re-enable it minutes later through the GUI
3. The interface becomes unresponsive/doesn't turn Bluetooth back on
4. bluetoothctl power on fails with "org.bluez.Error.Busy"

Workaround that works:

sudo systemctl restart bluetooth
bluetoothctl power on

System info:

• elementary OS 7.1 Horus
• BlueZ 5.64
• Bluetooth adapter: USB-based (usb:v1D6Bp0246d0540)

This seems to be a synchronization issue between the GUI and the bluetoothd daemon. The adapter gets stuck in a "busy" state when the GUI tries to disable it, and manual intervention is needed to reset the service.