SUMMARY BlueDevil seems to be constantly scanning for new bluetooth devices. On my hardware (and I suspect on any combined wifi/bluetooth chips, which are mostly found in laptops) this leads to serious deteoriation in wireless connectivity quality, up to completely loosing a wifi connection for couple minutes after a day of uptime. I'd suggest to add a separate configuration tickable to prevent this behaviour. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Enable BlueDevil "bluetooth integration" feature 2. Open bluetoothctl to monitor for scan("Discovering") requests OBSERVED RESULT Software-wise: Every 2-3 minutes, device goes into "Discovery" mode. Hardware-wise: Wireless speed & packetdrop grows, longer it keeps going worse the connectivity becomes. EXPECTED RESULT As this is not a bug per se, while having quite bad outcome AND being a non-obvious thing to detect/debug, I've set it to Wishlist. Expected result would be to have a configuration item to disable this behaviour while keeping other bluetooth integration features; I'd argue that not scanning continiously should be the default. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.52.0 Qt Version: 5.11.1 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Hardware in question: 04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 78)
It only starts device discovery in "Add Device" wizard, nowhere else.
Quite sure Add device wizard was not running. I have plasmoid added to my panel, if that matters. When I disabled "bluetooth integration" feature it stopped scanning (after restart of my session) without any other changes in system. I'll try to tinker around more and reproduce to see if I'll reproduce this behaviour to confirm add device wizard (what is the name of the wizard process?) is not running.
It's "bluedevil-wizard". One other thing that also starts discovery is KIO "bluetooth:" protocol, so if there is any process that periodically loads this url it will trigger discovery. But in that case, that process should be fixed, not Bluedevil.
Thanks for answer. In case I would be able to reproduce this behaviour, how do I find which exact process is calling for KIO bluetooth: ? Only things that (should have been) working with BT were: - pulseaudio, but that should not interact with KIO I think - bluetooth plasmoid from default plasmoid pack (haven't installed any custom BT plasmoids) - Through Pulseaudio, Clementine was playing music All that things are currently running with exact same settings as they were when problem was reproduced, except for "bluetooth integration" setting.
I have this problem re-appear, unfortunatelly, after system restart. First start of my session @ kde resulted in described behaviour. wizard was not running; running applications were: Kate, falkon, Konversation, Firefox, KMail. Second start of my session resulted in normal behaviour, marking as NOTABUG since its not a bug in bluedevil. Need help determining proper component, though.
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