Bluetooth BT BLE devives not recognized / found by Tasmota @ V 14.0.0

[Rushmed]

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION

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No bluetooth devices found on Tasmota V14.
V13.4 was working fine.

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TO REPRODUCE

Have a ESP32 with Tasmota installed, BT activated and some Mi BT Sensors or iBeacons nearby. On V13.4 they`re recognized.
On V14 nothing is recognized.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOUR

All bt deviches (mi senors, ibeacons) need to be recognized.

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ADDITIONAL CONTEXT

Check this discussion:
#21328
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[Mark-Muc]

Hello . I have nearly the same problem.
I compile a latest version (14.0.0.1 dev) and run it on a ESP32 device (Sonoff SwitchMan 2C) configurated as shutter.
After i updated to 14.0.0.1 dev. The device getting (respond) getting terribly slow and NO BLE devices show up. Switch back to 13.4.0 (stable) everything works fine and the BLE devices show up.
Compile with:

Regards
Mark_Muc

[kroon040]

Same issue here. I have more devices with bluetooth and all lost connection with tasmota 14, reverting back to 13.4 resolves the issue. Also a issue for the EQ3 devices

v14.0

10:23:58.530 BLE: scan stall? no adverts > 120s, restart BLE
10:23:58.537 BLE: BLETask: Restart NimBLE - restart Tasmota in 10 if not complt
10:23:58.541 BLE: Task:Stopping NimBLE
10:23:58.664 BLE: BLETask:Starting NimBLE
10:23:59.547 MQT: tele/rolluikslaap1/BLE = {"blerestart":"no adverts in 120s"} (retained)
10:23:59.549 BLE: Failure! Restarting BLE Stack because no adverts in 120s
10:25:59.533 BLE: scan stall? no adverts > 120s, restart BLE
10:25:59.630 BLE: BLETask: Restart NimBLE - restart Tasmota in 10 if not complt
10:25:59.636 BLE: Task:Stopping NimBLE
10:25:59.757 BLE: BLETask:Starting NimBLE

[Jason2866]

@btsimonh Can you have a look?

[btsimonh]

looks like NimBLE may have some issues to be resolved to work well with core 3.0.0
h2zero/NimBLE-Arduino#645

I think we should wait to see how @h2zero progresses....

[Jason2866]

@btsimonh wrong repo. Tasmota does not use NimBLE-Arduino anymore.
Moved to https://github.com/h2zero/esp-nimble-cpp.
The issue you mentioned is not relevant for esp-nimble-cpp
The MI driver from Staars does work well with esp-nimble-cpp and Arduino Core 3.0.0
"Only" the classic Tasmota BLE driver is not working.

[btsimonh]

ahh... ok. So just taking a quick look at the source, there are really no changes to account for changing library? I guess the NimBLE classes and structures are identical in both cases...
I build the firmware and confirm the above - adverts are not all being seen. It DID see one from an EQ3, but then failed to connect to the EQ3. So it looks like the stack is working a bit, just the radio not working too well.
We could look at changes to the wifi/BLE sharing methods in core 3.0.0?

[Jason2866]

There are some small changes made to make the BLE driver compile with Arduino Core 3.0.0 and h2zero lib esp-nimble-cpp. Take a look at the commits.

[btsimonh]

yep, spotted it. NimBLE-arduino had a separate scan end callback, set in a different way. Your commits meant that it was never called. Just testing a change now, so let's see....
(the scan end callback caused the start of another scan. so basically, currently scan once at start, and never again - and it's the scanning which hears adverts)

[Rushmed]

Thanks a lot!
When will the fix be available in precompiled files. Next version?

[Jason2866]

@Rushmed It is already here in section development https://tasmota.github.io/install/

[btsimonh]

@Rushmed @kroon040 @Mark-Muc - pls report success here.
For me, the mods showed my one pvv temp+hum sensor which was close, and 6 EQ3, 3 of which connection failed because of low signal, but the other three happily read valve position, etc. indicating connections success. (EQ3 connection is always a little dodgy - an ideal device to stress tas's BLE stack! ).
I didn't test aliasing or any other features - but nothing has changed there, so all should be good.

[kroon040]

@btsimonh ,

I got 4 EQ3 devices and 4 LYWSD03MMC devices. All the devices are working, also valve position and desired temp. Also aliasing also still works. I See one device he just needs to try 3 times and than it connects.

[Mark-Muc]

Just to let you know. I also built today a version in the dev. brache and all BLE derives are visible.
one slight problem:
if u use a "." (dot) in the aliasing . like:
BLEAlias E72E0050A0CC=1.OG_Bad A4C1382D29C3=1.OG_Arbeit_2

it shows in the UI like that:

as u can see it shows a "," (coma) instead of a "." (dot)
it is also in the version: 13.4.0 final.
Mark_Muc

[arendst]

That's the auto decimal kicking in. It replaces a dot by a comma for Germany :-)

Let me see if it can be easily fixed....

[arendst]

Try latest dev.

[btsimonh]

I wish CSV import in Excel different countries was fixed so easily and quickly!

[Mark-Muc]

Try latest dev.

did and looked good!!

that was fast and quick!!
Thx & Regards
Mark

[Mark-Muc]

but i do have an other problem.
not belog to the "bluetooth bug".
I foud out, that he newer versions of tasmota now connect my device (Sonoff SwitchMan 2C) now connect to my AP in
Mode HT40

bevor it connected to my AP in
Mode 11n

I think that will be the reason why it device is laging like hell.
The informiation of the device:

in my Fritz.Box it connects like:

if it's not the right place .. pls be so kind to move it!

Mark_Muc

[arendst]

Well core3 does support both n (=HT20) and HT40 depending on your wifi AP. Reconfig your AP to HT20 and it should connect to HT20 (at least that's what my ubiquiti does.)

[Jason2866]

The connection mode is most probably not the reason for your devices being laggy.
It is Bluetooth. Bluetooth and WiFi together enabled on an Esp32 is always problematic.

[Mark-Muc]

Well core3 does support both n (=HT20) and HT40 depending on your wifi AP. Reconfig your AP to HT20 and it should connect to HT20 (at least that's what my ubiquiti does.)

seems that this is not the issue .. fount out.
If u use a fresh installed 32bit device . flashed it with the webflasher included the final with Bluetooth.
it works with the network and no lagging.
BUT
if i restore my config .. the it is lagging like hell.
Found out:
If u upload to the filesystem it happens.
i.e. I upload a file called: autoexec.bat the device hangs / lagging.
autoexec.bat contains:

Mi32Option6 1
MI32Page 10
MI32Block A4C138465A57
MI32Block E7764500F442
BLEAlias 150311116C66=LYWSD02-1 A4C138AF4A0B=Temp&Hum(LYWSD03MMC) E72E0050A0CC=1.OG_Bad A4C138465A57=Pavillion_innen A4C1382D29C3=1.OG_Arbeit_2 A4C1389C4D2A=Thermostat
shutteropen

asap it hangs after upload.

It is fine in 13.4.0!!
Regards Mark
PS: I can provide my safed .DMP file.

[Rushmed]

@Rushmed It is already here in section development https://tasmota.github.io/install/

Thanks, how can I download the .bin file? I have to flash OTA.

[Jason2866]

Via official Tasmota OTA server https://ota.tasmota.com/tasmota32/

[Rushmed]

@Rushmed @kroon040 @Mark-Muc - pls report success here. For me, the mods showed my one pvv temp+hum sensor which was close, and 6 EQ3, 3 of which connection failed because of low signal, but the other three happily read valve position, etc. indicating connections success. (EQ3 connection is always a little dodgy - an ideal device to stress tas's BLE stack! ). I didn't test aliasing or any other features - but nothing has changed there, so all should be good.

Tasmota 14.0.0.3 (b61ea17-bluetooth) is working as expected. Thanks Sir!

[AleXSR700]

I do not know if this is related, but after upgrading my EQ3 to 14.2.0.6, my eQ3 devices are no longer connecting reliably.

I have 8 Xiaomi devices and 8 EQ3s. The Xiaomis (running ATC firmware) seem to work but the EQ3s just show 20:44:07.951 EQ3: 001A2208C9FA: trv operation failed - retrying -12 (with the respective device ID).

Interestingly, I see all 8 EQ3 TRVs right after a restart and they briefly show the correct temperatures in the WebUI. But then the connection starts failing and all values are set to 0.

Does anybody have similar issues?

EDIT: Reverted to 13.4.0 (http://ota.tasmota.com/tasmota32/release-13.4.0/tasmota32-bluetooth.bin) and it works again. So seems that something is broken in 14.2.0.6 again.