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[Keith McClelland <1510570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bluez 5.40 works for me for both Designer keyboard and mouse. At this
time Ubuntu has not packaged it up into a DEB but I was able to build
and install it myself (search for bluez 5.40 to find how to download the
entire large source). I am using Ubuntu 16.04 but a newer kernel made by
Ubuntu (4.6.0-040600-generic). It is also important to install the
patches Guilhem mentions in #22.

I needed some additional packages to do the build. This is the whole
procedure as well as a website that helped me figure this out:

 ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
 sudo apt-get install glib2.0
 sudo apt-get install libdbus-1-dev
 sudo apt-get install libudev-dev
 sudo apt-get install libical-dev
 sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev
 sudo make
 sudo make install

(I got help from http://rrbluetoothx.blogspot.com/2016/04/rr-bluetooth-
compile-bluez-539.html).

They haven't got everything right yet: both devices, though they work
fine, are of unknown type, and syslog is still littered with python
failures whenever one of these connects or disconnects.

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Title:
  BLE pairing fail

Status in bluez package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  On 15.10 we now have bluez 5 so we can pair BLE devices like the
  Microsoft Arc Touch Bluetooth Mouse.

  But this pairing doesn't work very well. Mouse is seen but pairing fail.
  More information: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104011#c5

  This is due to udev rule that use "hcitool" to power on device.
  Hopefully, bluez 5.35 has a new parameter "AutoEnable" who can be used instead of udev rules.

  here is a commit with this parameter: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~guilhem-fr/bluez/autoenable/revision/138
  And a ppa to test it: https://code.launchpad.net/~guilhem-fr/+archive/ubuntu/bluez-autoenable

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