Bluetooth pairing is a complete headache

UPDATE:
It's a BT range problem.
The laptop is right by my side but it seems that for this device its far, maybe the laptop BT power is low.
I found this by using another device a Sony SRS-XB33 and put the speaker right beside the laptop and paired it.
It was working just great until I held to increase the volume and the sound started to get chopping, I put it back and went back to normal.
With this new event I decided to test again the headsets and (this will sound weird) I put my head on the laptop.
It works, kept the position for 1 minute and no chopping sound and no connection dropped until I sit back on my desk seat in front of the screen.
The sound turned to get choppy until the connection got dropped again.

So it's an hardware issue.
 
rmomota said:
UPDATE:
It's a BT range problem.
The laptop is right by my side but it seems that for this device its far, maybe the laptop BT power is low.
I found this by using another device a Sony SRS-XB33 and put the speaker right beside the laptop and paired it.
It was working just great until I held to increase the volume and the sound started to get chopping, I put it back and went back to normal.
With this new event I decided to test again the headsets and (this will sound weird) I put my head on the laptop.
It works, kept the position for 1 minute and no chopping sound and no connection dropped until I sit back on my desk seat in front of the screen.
The sound turned to get choppy until the connection got dropped again.

So it's an hardware issue.
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Maybe look at the Wifi/Bluetooth antenna connection inside your laptop? Disconnected cable or non-existent? or PCB strip antenna inside a metal case? Consider adding an external cable antenna? This to get a higher level of Signal to Noise Ration for the bluetooth RF signal.

What is the status or your C and Qt sound Bluetooth connection program? I am interested in duplicating your steps to achieve the results you have and test Bluetooth connections from my computers to Bluetooth Headphones or some Bluetooth Mouse or Bluetooth Keyboard. Raspberry Pi 4B has a wifi chip with bluetooth that I would like to also test connections with. My blog on Raspberry Pi running GhostBSD-Arm64 https://ghostbsd-arm64.blogspot.com http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages files you can look at
http://ghostbsdarm64.hopto.org/packages/write_freebsd_img_dd_to_da1.sh Script to download, decompress img.xz file, dd write to /dev/da1 usb flash drive.

You are doing a good job, making BlueTooth Headphones easier to pair and use on FreeBSD, rmomota. Thank you for your excellent work!
 
<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-multimedia/2023-December/002088.html> | <https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?86y1dxpjzy.fsf> Joseph Mingrone jrm@ wrote:

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Bluetooth device management utility

Although not strictly audio-related, I plan to write a (possibly using bsddialog) bluetooth device management utility. Setting up bluetooth devices on FreeBSD is still rather complicated and confusing, and involves setting up multiple different programs to even pair with a bluetooth device. This tool will detect nearby bluetooth devices, prompt the user to choose which one(s) they want to (un-)pair with, and handle configuration automatically.

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<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-multimedia/2023-December/002092.html> | <https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?zplobfdklidj7iwmwzfyglkpc2qklhkxkuf3albz4iprndewcg> Christos Margiolis christos wrote:

… Someone started with a bluetooth daemon a while ago. It sounds like this and your proposal share a common goal. No idea what the state of it is, but maybe you want to check it out: <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-bluetooth/2022-August/000021.html>
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I am aware of this project and plan to use some of its ideas as inspiration, although I find it to be quite overengineered in my humble opinion.
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