/dual-boot-bluetooth-pair

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Dual Boot Bluetooth Pair

This is a tool I use to pair a bluetooth device with my Windows OS and Manjaro OS on my dual boot laptop.

Disclaimer

This script involves accessing and modifying system files on the Windows / Linux systems and may risk damaging your computer. Proceed with the below steps at your own risk.

Instructions

I recommend backing up all config files before attempting the below steps.

The scripts in this project are intended to be executed on your Linux OS using Python3.

  1. Boot into Linux and pair bluetooth device(s). You'll need the newly generated info and attributes files in /var/lib/bluetooth/<ADAPTOR_MAC_ADDRESS>/<DEVICE_MAC_ADDRESS>/.
  2. Reboot into Windows and pair bluetooth device(s).
  3. Download PSExec and run the following command from a Command Prompt running in Administator mode:
PsExec64.exe -s -i regedit /e C:\BTKeys.reg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\BTHPORT\Parameters\Keys
  1. Copy the C:\BTKeys.reg file to a USB key (or leave on C: drive if it's accessible from the Linux OS).
  2. Turn off bluetooth device(s) and boot back into Linux. Don't pair the device again in Linux. It might generate a new mac address, which will break the Windows pairing. (I don't know if this is normal, but it's what happens with my Logitech G604).
  3. Copy the BTKeys.reg file to your Linux filesystem.
  4. Run clean_reg_file.py --file_path BTKeys.reg --output clean.reg to clean the file (converts encoding to UTF8 and strips quotation marks).
  5. Run bluetooth_fix.py --reg_path clean.reg.
  6. From a terminal with sudo, navigate to /var/lib/bluetooth/<ADAPTOR_MAC_ADDRESS>/.
  7. Make a new directory corresponding to the device mac address from BTKeys.reg.
  8. Copy info and attributes from the old mac address directory to the new one.
  9. Open /var/lib/bluetooth/<ADAPTOR_MAC>/<NEW_DEVICE_MAC>/info and modify the values as per output from step 8.
  10. Restart bluetooth with sudo systemctl restart bluetooth.