Connecting a Bluetooth 4.0 LE mouse (Microsoft mobile mouse 3600)

I'm trying to connect a Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Mouse 3600 in Ubuntu 15.10.

I first tried connecting through unity-control-center. This would discover the device, but fail to connect every time. On further research, it seems it's not possible to connect to a LE (low energy) device this way.

So I tried it with CLI tools. I can get this far:

$ sudo hcitool lescan
LE Scan ...
F2:C2:08:8A:DD:10 BluetoothMouse3600
F2:C2:08:8A:DD:10 (unknown)
sudo gatttool -I
[ ][LE]> connect F2:C2:08:8A:DD:10 random
Attempting to connect to F2:C2:08:8A:DD:10
Connection successful
[F2:C2:08:8A:DD:10][LE]>

So it seems the mouse is connected. However, it does not seem to be working as a mouse, at least when I move it, the pointer does not move. Also, hcidump does not show any activity when I move the mouse.

Is there something more I need to do to get it recognized as a mouse? Any more troubleshooting steps I might take?

2 Answers

After a few false starts I have Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Mouse 3600 working on a Dell XPS with Ubuntu 14.04. I took the advice in Logitech MX Master Mouse pairs, but won't workand installed Bluez 5.41

Using bluetoothctl I was able to pair and 'trust' the mouse. On my first attempt the mouse would work fine for a few minutes, then I'd need to power off and power on bluetooth using hciconfig hci0 down; hciconfig hci0 up

Eventually I figured out that I had two entries for the mouse in /var/lib/bluetooth/XX:YY:ZZ..... Once I wiped out the contents of that directory and started over, pair, etc. all was fine.

I have a Dell Inspiron 5557, running Ubuntu 16.04. I have detected, paired and I'm using this mouse, without any package or configuration.

The only trick that I really needed was to push and hold the power button of the mouse some seconds (It turns on a green light behind the mouse) and detect and pair the mouse with blueman. I just was able to do this after use this trick.