Support for UB500 Bluetooth Dongle

Hi FergFerg this link should help you add the firmware - https://wiki.libreelec.tv/how-to/add-firmware

Clean boot an LE11 image and run "dmesg | paste" and share the URL so we can see the full log. From this we can see if there's any evidence of missing firmware or missing driver. The snippets you've shared are not showing much.

I too have this (UB500 TP-link) dongle and am running Generic.x86_64-9.1.002 (Leia), which I don't want to change from, for various reasons (namely running Chrome)

I looked at the link above to add firmware and even tho I'm reasonably computer-savvy, the first method looks too hard for me.

The second method (shown in video) I could do - I've accessed folders on my Kodi installation from my Win10 machine (over the network) before.
but how do I identify the firmware for the USB stick?
I have a folder that I unzipped to install it on Windows 10 (screenshots attached). Is any of that firmware?

Can someone please tell me how to find the firmware for my dongle or perhaps even ELI5 me the process to use this dongle on my Kodi install?

(A number of reviewers on Amazon did say the dongle was compatible with Linux)

Read post #3 again.

Hey Chewitt,
Thanks!
1) I am running 9.2.6 (and 9.1.002 on another stick) - I presume you mean to just run whatever I'm on, rather than 11...?
2) I don't know what clean boot means

3) I don't know how to 'run' dmesg | paste'? Is this something to do with SSHing in? (which I've never done)

4) If its not too hard I'm pretty tech savvy and willing to learn how to do it.

NOTE: The dongle IS working on a version of LE11 that I created (but didn't use because it didn't support Chrome, from memory). So there is some hope! (I even thought of copying the firmware files from that somehow, via the Windows network as shown in the video here, but I couldn't find /usr/lib/firmware.)

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Clean boot an LE11 image and run "dmesg | paste" and share the URL so we can see the full log. From this we can see if there's any evidence of missing firmware or missing driver. The snippets you've shared are not showing much.

Actually Im asking ChatGPT...

It told me how to do it but in the terminal I keep getting 'access denied' whenever I type the correct password.

Argh!

Can't SSH into Kodi

1. What am I doing wrong? So frustrating!
a) Note: when I type the password into PuTTY, the cursor doesn't advance
b) I did at first encounter the warning in the third shot. First I did 'connect once'. Then 'accept'.

c) The ip address, user ('root') and pw are all definitely correct.

2. What is a 'clean boot' into Kodi precisely?

3. Is there another way I can get you the log?

Move the cursor to Connect Once and press return.

Thanks PE! That saved some time but still access denied.

I know its the right password.

(Note: cursor doesn't move when I type password - blindly!)

Far better results using Windows CMD prompt than PuTTY

1. Wow, I just managed to log in on the first attempt using CMD (run as admin).
a) OpenSSH Client was already installed.

2. I'll be uninstalling PuTTY. I didn't find it very useful.

Ran dmesg | paste and got this.
No url given.
Is some site just busy?

dmesg output: SUCCESS...of a kind

1. I managed to output to a text, which I've attached

2. I couldn't send to a url because:

a) 'paste' command wasn't recognised

b) When I used curl (command below), it had a problem because of lack of a log in

dmesg | curl -F 'file=@-' https://paste.ubuntu.com

Anyway, hopefully Chewitt or another may be able to help me get my TP-link UB500 BT dongle recognised by Leia (9.1.002 or 9.2.6) now that you have this !

NOTE: Build 12 worked but had troubling errors loading movies.

I did successfully get Legacy 12 working and detecting the dongle, and even successfully loading my crucial add-ons (after encouragement and instructions in this thread). But unfortunately there is a major problem with playing video files over the network. It has frequent errors I never had on Leia ('One of more items failed to play') and is very slow to load a movie compared to Leia.
So at this point I'd be just as happy to get my trusty Leia/9 to simply recognise the dongle - because I'm happy with everything else.

(i.e LibreELEC-Generic-legacy.x86_64-12.0-nightly-20231129-ffe1b62.img.gz (sha256))

If LE 11/12 work and LE 9 does not the issue is simply kernel version and lack of driver support for the hardware. Fixing that in LE 9 will either need patching the kernel to add new device IDs, or patching the kernel to backport actual drivers. In both cases this will need building a custom image and I don't see value in that when newer releases work.

LE 11/12 have no general issues playing media over an Ethernet network. If you previously added hacks for cache tweaking, remove them. If you are using WiFi, try using Ethernet. If you are using NFS, try using SMB (or vice versa). Or start with a better description of the problem than "troubling issues" and provide debug logs.

Great news: I 'fixed' the problem.

I don't know which one did it, but:

1. I stopped scanning for new movies before I tried to load a movie.

2. I scraped the movies with TMDB Python instead of Universal Movie Scraper

The movies then loaded quite quickly - feels faster than LN 9.

Very happy !