How to check bluetooth status via terminal
In addition to checking for the service you can use the command
hcitool dev
that will return all devices turned on.
Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, You can run this command to see the status of bluetooth
sudo service bluetooth status
after you enter your password, you should see something like
bluetooth is running
More information with hciconfig -a
hciconfig -a
provides way more information, including Bluetooth version.
$ hciconfig -a
hci0: Type: Primary Bus: USB
BD Address: 00:1A:7D:DC:70:13 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8
UP RUNNING PSCAN
RX bytes:1013 acl:0 sco:0 events:60 errors:0
TX bytes:4890 acl:0 sco:0 commands:60 errors:0
Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0xdb 0xff 0x5b 0x87
Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK
Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
Name: 'hostname'
Class: 0x1c0104
Service Classes: Rendering, Capturing, Object Transfer
Device Class: Computer, Desktop workstation
HCI Version: 4.0 (0x6) Revision: 0x22bb
LMP Version: 4.0 (0x6) Subversion: 0x22bb
Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)