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I've just bought a Microsoft designer mouse which uses bluetooth to connect rather than a dongle, but for some reason my laptop simply won't recognise the device.

Pairing the devices didn't work via GUI so I opened a terminal, ran bluetoothctl and then scan on but still can't see the MAC address of the mouse.

I've done some research into this and have seen suggestions to edit /etc/bluetooth/main.conf and have also tried this but still no joy. I've also tried to completely remove bluez and blueman and re-install, but it's still not working.

Have I made a boo boo in choosing this mouse?

Daemon4
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Microsoft Designer Mouse needs to have Bluetooth 4 to work, I bought this mouse a month ago and had to return it, because I had version < 4.

You can find your bluetooth version with command hciconfig -a | grep HCI

See the (0xY) where Y is:

0 Bluetooth Core Specification 1.0b 
1 Bluetooth Core Specification 1.1 
2 Bluetooth Core Specification 1.2 
3 Bluetooth Core Specification 2.0 + EDR 
4 Bluetooth Core Specification 2.1 + EDR 
5 Bluetooth Core Specification 3.0 + HS 
6 Bluetooth Core Specification 4.0 ​ ​
7 ​Bluetooth Core Specification 4.1 ​ 
​8 ​​Bluetooth Core Specification 4.2 
9 - 255 Reserved

Source of this specification ...

So you need at least HCI Version: ... (0x6) ... to make it work.

Mike
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  • Yup it looks like mine is 0x5...dang. I don't suppose there's a way to upgrade your HCI? – Daemon4 Jan 11 '16 at 11:50
  • @Daemon4 You can buy a Bluetooth 4 adapter, for example as a USB dongle and use it to connect to you keyboard. If you find my answer helpful or answer to your question, please rate it or mark it as an answer. – Mike Jan 17 '16 at 09:08
  • @Mike Thank you for the answer. Can you please take a look at this question1. I have the problem too and I might share it with many. Like in this related questions: q2, q3, etc. – alex Mar 01 '16 at 12:18