Official moOde 8 support thread

[TheOldPresbyope]

There is the setting below in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf

Code:

# Restricts all controllers to the specified transport. Default value
# is "dual", i.e. both BR/EDR and LE enabled (when supported by the HW).
# Possible values: "dual", "bredr", "le"
ControllerMode = dual

In moOde 7 it was set to "bredr".  It was just left as the default "dual" in 8 but could be changed. I'll run some tests tomorrow.

-Tim

On the scale of things which need to be done, this is closer to a 1 than a 9

I had noticed the ControllerMode setting but not played with it. I'm not getting the result I expected changing it to bredr on a moOde 8 player. Here's the SCAN-for-devices output after rebooting

Code:

**
** 56-75-A3-61-0A-30
** GVH5075_E94A
** cc:04:b4:0d:4e:42
** 61-A4-09-B1-26-29
** 4E-BF-EB-39-DF-03
** GVH5075_04F6
** GVH5075_6E31
** 4D-12-36-F3-50-2D
** GVH5075_B970
** 41-2D-A1-12-74-21
** GVH5075_EA5B
**

While for a moOde 7 player on the same LAN

Code:

**
** m8zero2w Bluetooth
** m8pi3bplcd Bluetooth
** m8pi3a Bluetooth
** JBL Flip 2
**

If I change the moOde 8 player back to "dual" and reboot

Code:

*
** GVH5075_E94A
** GVH5075_B970
** m8pi3bplcd Bluetooth
** JBL Flip 2
** CM4 Bluetooth
** GVH5075_EA5B
** 56-75-A3-61-0A-30
** GVH5075_04F6
** cc:04:b4:0d:4e:42
** 41-2D-A1-12-74-21
** 4A-3D-8D-34-87-EA
** 5F-C5-4D-BB-C6-E0
** 70-04-25-2E-9C-A0
**

It missed several moOde players and there are actually 7 GVH5075 type sensors in the house so I know the detection is a bit rando. 

Repeating the moOde 8 scan a while later gets all the GVH5075 type sensors and no moOde players. Several players were missed when I repeated the scan on the moOde 7 player.

One thought: I have a number of RPis on the desk. I wonder if I'm getting some transceiver overloading from the proximity of so many sources. Sigh - one more thing to check.

Compare this to HomeAssistant, say, which I have running on an RPi4B on the same desk. It finds everything every time. I haven't figured out yet how they do it.

Regards,
Kent