Having trouble connecting my Powerbeats Bluetooth headphones. To be fair, over the last two years, I have used Ubuntu and POP_OS, which never connected to the headphones, and Manjaro KDE which worked perfectly with basically no set up. This might be a Gnome issue, but after switching to Fedora 34 yesterday, which I am loving, still no working headphones.
The Settings->Bluetooth app finds the headphones but never connects.
I was able to go to the CLI, user bluetoothctl and find the hardware device, and pair using bluetoothctl pair DEV_ADDRESS. But when I open the Bluetooth GUI and click the device, it is paired but not connected. It does not show up in the Sound app to select as a deveice.
First of all, open the GNOME settings menu and go to the bluetooth section. Then remove the powerbeats (you have to try a reconfiguration from scratch entirely using the command line). Close the settings window.
To investigate open two terminals:
In the first terminal type the command sudo journalctl -f
In the second terminal type:
I also had a hard time connecting the Powerbeats with bluetooth, but after a few attempts I made it.
In case you want to cancel the pairing or the connection there are two commands, respectively cancel-pairing DEV_ADDRESS and disconnect DEV_ADDRESS
Good luck!