USB Bluetooth dongle support

Help & Support Hardware
1

Hello,

I bought a cheap USB Bluetooth stick to use with my N2 from ebay. Type: ORICO Mini Wireless Bluetooth 2.0 Adapter Dongle USB 2.0 CSR8510

However, CoreELEC 9.0.2 shows no Bluetooth adapter found. lsusb shows:
0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

Any hope on getting this device supported?

2

That device should work just fine. I have one, and it’s got the same chipset as the one sold by Odroid themselves:

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/bluetooth-module-2/

People seem to be having problems with BT on the 6/20 CoreELEC N2 nightly, but I would maybe check it on another system to see if it’s faulty.

3

I don’t think it’s the same.
The one sold by HardKernel is bluetooth 4.0 and the one described in the request is 2.0
By the way, I have dongle with the same chipset (dongle Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR mini) and it doesn’t work.
In windows 10 I had to install the bluesoleil’s driver.

4

If it’s truly the CSR8510 chipset, it should be Bluetooth 4.0, it should work. That said, there are unscrupulous vendors labelling their products as having a CSR8510 when in reality, they don’t.