Working Setup: Simplecom NB409 Bluetooth 5.0 USB Wireless Dongle

[kakra]

I've had my dongle for a while and it's worked fine for the little bits of bluetooth I've needed in the past. I've just tested it with xpadneo for a few hours of gaming and no dropouts or other issues so far.

I got it here: https://www.mwave.com.au/product/simplecom-nb409-bluetooth-50-usb-wireless-dongle-with-a2dp-edr-ac38550

Branding: Simplecom NB409 Bluetooth 5.0 USB Wireless Dongle with A2DP EDR
I'm not sure what chipset it is exactly, but probably some really common off the shelf thing because someone else reported the same USB id above with completely different branding.

lsusb: ID 0bda:8771 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bluetooth Radio

Unlike the previous report, it's worked straight out of the box for me on Manjaro KDE with kernel 5.15 and 6.1. I had to manually install xpadneo, the AUR package didn't work for me (DKMS in both cases). Other than that, so far so good. I did update the firmware of the controller via windows as a debugging step while still on the broken AUR package, but even with the AUR package the bluetooth was pairing fine, i just wasn't getting the rumble.

Originally posted by @mscharley in #93 (comment)