ok, I've tried everything I could think of. even started with a fresh image. did all the updates, installed the images, etc. I get as far as getting the bt recognised but not activated:
@orangepi4:~$ hciconfig
hci0: Type: Primary Bus: UART
BD Address: 43:45:C5:00:1F:AC ACL MTU: 0:0 SCO MTU: 0:0
DOWN RAW
RX bytes:1306 acl:0 sco:0 events:144 errors:0
TX bytes:30126 acl:0 sco:0 commands:144 errors:0
and this:
@orangepi4:~$ sudo dmesg | grep Blue
[ 6.764297] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[ 6.764342] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 6.764351] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 6.764357] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 6.764366] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 6.841227] Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.3
[ 6.841234] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol H4 registered
[ 6.841559] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Broadcom registered
[ 7.193915] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 130
[ 7.194377] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: features 0x0f
[ 7.196658] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM4345C5
[ 7.196673] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM4345C5 (003.006.006) build 0000
[ 7.889681] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM4345C5 (003.006.006) build 0038
[ 7.890576] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: Using default device address (43:45:c5:00:1f:ac)
Any suggestions?
Cheers