Enable battery level reporting for bluetooth devices on linux
Posted on Sun 10 July 2022 in Software • 1 min read •
This is an experimental feature of BlueZ bluetooth stack. To enable the feature edit bluetooth.service
and put the ExecStart
to be /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd --experimental
.
The file bluetooth.service
is present in /lib/systemd/system/
on debian. Otherwise, the file can be edited by issuing command sudo systemctl edit bluetooth.service
.
After this change restart the bluetooth service by sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl restart bluetooth
. The power status for the device connected via bluetooth should be now visible in power pane of GNOME Settings application.