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Using a Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Today’s blog post is a bit of a note to self. As usual, I had solved this problem once before, but had to repeat a fair bit of work to solve it again on another box. So I thought I should really write it up, for future reference.

Over the last several weeks I have been working through some long-awaited upgrades to my home PC. This involved performance upgrades (the usual mainboard, CPU, RAM combo), quietness upgrades (basically I replaced all the fans with lower-noise Noctua fans for a very significant improvement), and human-interface upgrades (mice and keyboards). Most of the process was fairly straight forward, so I’ll spare you the details there. With the mice, however, I hit a few snags (which I must say were not unexpected).

Background

The problem at hand is how to pair recent Microsoft Bluetooth mice with an Ubuntu box, and get them to work. This applies at least to the following models:

• Microsoft Arc Touch Bluetooth Mouse
• Microsoft Designer Bluetooth Mouse
• Microsoft Surface Mouse (which looks suspiciously like the Microsoft Modern Mouse)

I have each of the above models, and this solution has been tested with all of them. (The first model is what I use as a portable mouse with my Surface; the others are intended for my desktop, which has a dual-seat setup.)

The difficulty is that, with an out-of-the-box Ubuntu setup, the mice will pair but will not work.

Solution

First of all, you’ll need a bluetooth adapter that supports the 4.0 LE standard or later. You can check what standard your system supports by running the following command:

The Bluetooth version is listed under “HCI Version”. Next step involves editing a couple files in the system:

• /lib/udev/rules.d/50-bluetooth-hci-auto-poweron.rules
  • Comment out the only non-commented line
• /etc/bluetooth/main.conf
  • Uncomment the lines with “[Policy]” and “AutoEnable=true” (the latter one needs to be edited)

Reboot, and pair the mouse. At this point it should work, but if not, try un-pairing and re-pairing once (in some cases this may be necessary).

Just to make life more interesting, the web page where I had found the solution originally (when pairing the Arc Touch with my Surface) seems to be offline. Thankfully, the web archive has a copy.

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Microsoft Designer Mouse (Bluetooth 4.0) on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

I just bought a Microsoft Designer Mouse, specs here, (Bluetooth 4.0) and am not able to use it in Ubuntu 14.04. On the Windows 8 (same laptop computer) it works just fine.

So I’ve searched arround and found many people with the same issue. Apparantly the issue is that ubuntu 14.04 only has BlueZ 4.101 as of now, and it would take BlueZ 5.x to support Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy Device, which seems to be hard to install. There’s a thread running from April 2013 to recently on the issue, stating that it’s hard to incorporate Bluez 5.x on Ubuntu.

Some people gave some non working suggestions, including the installation of a PPA that lead to me having to reainstall ubuntu (bluetooth wouldn’t turn on and ubuntu would hang indefinitly on shutdown):

So isn’t there a solution at all? I can’t use Bluetooth 4.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, although the hardware supports it? Is there another Linux distribution that would support Bluetooth 4.0 (Like Mint or someother)?

No one said explicitly that there isn’t a solution, probably because there are stuff a very experienced user could do according to his own case.

Seems like a thumbs down for ubuntu.

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I got the Microsoft Designer Mouse working on Ubuntu 14.04 with the following PPAs and package installs:

Then you need to restart blueman just incase.

Update: WARNING — for some users such as @kalamalka-kid below, the following has broken their system settings completely. Proceed with caution.

I have some good news — I managed to get the «Low Energy» Bluetooth 4.0 Microsoft Designer Mouse working with my DELL XPS 13 laptop (broadcom bluetooth chip) reliably after 1.5 days of full time hacking and hair-tearing. Yay for Linux! 😀

Documenting it here so somebody in the same situation doesn’t have to go through the same hair-tearing.

First, I followed the instructions at the LTS Enablement stack page to get a nice new kernel 3.19 running on 14.04.

• sudo apt-get install —install-recommends linux-generic-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-core-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-vivid libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-vivid
• I also had to do apt-get dist-upgrade after that to actually install the new kernel packages.

This broke my Bluetooth completely because I have a Broadcom chip that requires custom firmware (see below for fixing that).

I uninstalled all of the Bluetooth stuff from my laptop to start fresh. The bluez package from the vidplace7/bluez5 PPA hung for me on uninstall. I fixed this by editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/bluez.prerm before doing the uninstall command and removing the invoke-rc.d line and replacing it with echo «no bluetooth stopping!» . That worked and the package will uninstall with the following steps:

• dpkg -l | grep blue will give you a list of all bluetooth packages.
• apt-get remove —purge bluez bluetooth blueman. with all of those packages listed will uninstall everything.

Once all of the bluetooth packages are removed, remove the broken bluez PPA:

• sudo add-apt-repository —remove ppa:vidplace7/bluez5

Then add the following PPA, which has a non-crashing version of bluez :

• sudo apt-add-repository ppa:timchen119/bluez5-trusty
• apt-get install bluez

Because the Dell XPS 13 has a broadcom chip it requires a custom firmware. The following firmware installation steps are only necessary for that chip. I detected the problem because of the following lines in my syslog:

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Microsoft Mouse 3600 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

I like this Microsoft “Mobile Mouse” 3600. It connects to my laptop via bluetooth so there’s no need to add a dongle.

It works with Linux but it’s a bit finicky. In this post I’m addressing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. This might seem like moot point because 18.04 LTS is literally right around the corner. However, there a chance it’s meticulous connection procedure will still need to be followed. So here’s how to consistently get it to connect to your computer.

I’ve highlighted all the commands you’ll need to type in bold. The other text is the output you’ll be seeing. The device ID will be different for your 3600 mouse, and it will be different every time you try to pair it. Just be careful to copy and paste off of your screen and not mine 😉

Put your mouse into pairing mode by holding the bottom button down for more than 5 seconds. Then launch the bluetooth control tool from the terminal, and start a scan. Note the ID of BluetoothMouse3600 , you’ll use it for the commands pair , trust , and connect .

Sweet we’re connected! But your mouse probably won’t (yet) work. We need to disconnect first (I’ll explain why in a bit).

Why am I doing this again.

I’m not exactly sure why this needs to be done twice, but somewhere along the way I believe I saw some bluetooth debugging information show that the first device is for BLE (bluetooth low energy) and the second is the actual HID (human interface device). Comment if you can confirm or deny, but for now, let’s keep truckin’…

Put the mouse into pairing mode again. Then pair/trust/connect again . You may notice the number in the 4th section of the device ID is one number higher than it was when we first paired.

Now your mouse should work!

If you find it not reconnecting on occasion, turning the mouse off/on with a quick press of the bottom button sometimes does the trick. Otherwise, remove both of the bluetooth devices that are paired and start from the top. I’ve done this several times and this is the only consistent way I’ve been able to get it working again.

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absolutely unbelivable. I have been messing with this for half a year. There is no reason to this. It just sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. Goddamn linux. And now when googling again, i see that in Ubuntu 18 people STILL mess around with this stuff. It never ends.
Anyway, thanks for showing bluetoothctl commands. Randomly pairing/unpairing eventually worked

Yeah, it’s frustrating. I’m not sure who to blame on this one, but the 3600 had some odd behaviors in OSX as well. Hopefully this helps someone besides myself.

Rodrigo Fernandes said on 2018-11-19 at 1:31 AM :

I did it here and it worked, but when restarting the system I always have to do the process again.

That was always a worry – for me it would only work on reboot half of the time. For what it’s worth, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has been perfectly stable with the Microsoft 3600 mouse. I’ve only had to connect it once.

Rodrigo Fernandes said on 2018-11-19 at 10:26 AM :

I use Linux Mint 19, and here it is not working.

I can’t speak for Mint 19, but the version of the `bluez` package I’m currently using is 5.48.

Will this work with linux Mint?? I haven’t been able to use this mouse for almost 2 years and have given up hope on it completely!!

Possibly, I noticed when I upgraded my bluetooth subsystem (bluez) to 5.48 it worked much more predictably.

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Microsoft Bluetooth® Mobile Mouse 3600

Microsoft Bluetooth® Mobile Mouse 3600

Номер части: PN7-00004 (Черный) | PN7-00024 (Синий) | PN7-00014 (Красный)

Мышь Bluetooth Mobile Mouse достаточно компактная, чтобы быть с вами повсюду

Вам понравится, как мышь Bluetooth® Mobile Mouse 3600 лежит у вас в руке и соответствует вашему мобильному жизненному стилю. Ей можно пользоваться практически на любой поверхности, даже на грубой скамейке в парке или ковре в гостиной, благодаря Microsoft BlueTrack Technology 1 . Для управления не требуются приемопередатчики и провода. Одна батарея позволит вам использовать мышь до двенадцати месяцев.

Компактный дизайн обеспечивает исключительную мобильность

Компактная конструкция Microsoft Bluetooth® Mobile Mouse 3600 делает ее идеальным вариантом для путешествий.

4-сторонняя прокрутка

4-сторонняя прокрутка для навигации по всем направлениям.

BlueTrack Technology®

Удобно для правшей и левшей

Благодаря симметричному дизайну и настраиваемым клавишам, мышь может использоваться как правшами, так и левшами.

Bluetooth Smart

Надежная связь без помех благодаря новейшей технологии Bluetooth 4.0.

Время работы от батареи — до 12 месяцев

Другие элементы, которые могут вам понравиться

Sculpt Comfort Mouse

Wireless Mobile Mouse 1850

Sculpt Mobile Mouse

Comfort Mouse 4500

ОТКАЗЫ ОТ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТИ

[1] BlueTrack Technology не работает на бесцветных стеклянных или зеркальных поверхностях.

Компьютер

Требуется ПК, отвечающий указанным ниже требованиям, и с совместимой операционной системой.

• Windows 10 или Windows 8
• Mac OS X 10.10.3
• Android 4.4.2, Android 5.0

Подключение

Устройство должно поддерживать Bluetooth® 4.0 (или более позднюю версию)

Объем памяти на жестком диске

Для настраиваемых функций Windows требуется программное обеспечение Центра управления мышью и клавиатурой (объем скачиваемого программного обеспечения составляет 150 МБ) и последнее обновление Windows.

Операционные системы

СОВМЕСТИМА:

• Win 10 64 бит, Win 10 32 бит, Win 8.1 32 бит, Win 8.1 64 бит, Win 8 32 бит, Win 8 64 бит
• Mac OS 10.10
• Android 5.0, Nexus 9

НЕ СОВМЕСТИМА

• Win 7 32 бит, Win 7 64 бит, Win RT 8.1, Win RT 8
• Mac OS 10.9, Mac OS 10.8, Mac OS 10.7
• Android 4.4.4, Nexus 5, Android 4.2, Android 3.2
• iOS 8, iOS 7, iOS 6

Размеры

Длина: 3,75″ / 95,4мм
Ширина: 2,25″ / 57,1 мм

Питание

Требуется одна щелочная батарея размера AA (включена в комплект).

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Ubuntu Documentation

Introduction

Since the M10 tablet device availability, people wonder which devices they can buy to use knowing it will help. We intend to make this list available for those people — if you tried any other device please add!

• HP X4000B
• SONY VGP-BMS15 Bluetooth Mouse
• Apple Mighty Mouse
• HP Bluetooth Mouse Z5000 (fasto to connect, slow to disconnect)
• Gigabyte M7700B Compact Bluetooth Laptop Laser Mouse

Keyboard

Logitech Bluetooth Multi-device Keyboard K480

Logitech K380 Multi-device bluetooth keyboard (as reviewed in http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-bluetooth-keyboard/) (connects/disconnects quickly)

Logitech diNovo Mini

Keyboard and mouse set

• Logitech MX1000 (not all multimedia keys work)
• TECHGEAR® [Active Strike Pro] Slim Bluetooth Wireless UK QWERTY Keyboard with Mouse Touchpad
• Microsoft Wedge Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse
• Exibel HB087 Bluetooth Keyboard with Touchpad (slow to connect/disconnect)

Known to not be working yet

• first-gen Apple Magic Trackpad
• Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Mouse 3600
• Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard and Microsoft Designer Mouse

Other

BluetoothDevices (последним исправлял пользователь daniperezal 2016-09-21 22:20:16)

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