Not seeing any BLE broadcasts on an RPi4

[lorenzothurman]

Raspbian install with HomeAssistant and BLE integrations installed. Similar configuration on another RPI4 shows the BLE broadcasts for many devices. 'hcitool rescan' finds all nearby devices. I also ran the 3 setcap commands as mentioned in the docs. Please advise.

No BLE (no discovery after initialize):
Nov 24 12:54:06 DenPi room-assistant[912]: 24/11/2022, 12:54:06 - info - ClusterService: denpi has been elected as leader Nov 24 12:54:06 DenPi room-assistant[912]: 24/11/2022, 12:54:06 - info - ClusterService: Added xxx.xxx.xxx:6425 to the cluster with id bedroompi Nov 24 12:54:06 DenPi room-assistant[912]: 24/11/2022, 12:54:06 - info - ClusterService: Added xxx.xxx.xxx:6425] to the cluster with id living-room Nov 24 12:54:07 DenPi room-assistant[912]: 24/11/2022, 12:54:07 - info - ClusterService: Added xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6425 to the cluster with id basement

Nothing else after this, unless another cluster leader is elected.

BLE:
BluetoothLowEnergyService: Discovered nearby BLE peripheral 4617985a2da8 with ID 4617985a2da8 and RSSI -80 Nov 24 13:12:36 LivingRoomPi room-assistant[3498]: 11/24/2022, 1:12:36 PM - info - BluetoothLowEnergyService: Discovered nearby BLE peripheral 5063b44ffece with ID 5063b44ffece and RSSI -96 Nov 24 13:12:58 LivingRoomPi room-assistant[3498]: 11/24/2022, 1:12:58 PM - info - BluetoothLowEnergyService: Discovered nearby BLE peripheral 40e7373e844d with ID 40e7373e844d and RSSI -90 Nov 24 13:14:41 LivingRoomPi room-assistant[3498]: 11/24/2022, 1:14:41 PM - info - BluetoothLowEnergyService: Discovered nearby BLE peripheral 4cfe4739b3ae with ID 4cfe4739b3ae and RSSI -95 Nov 24 13:15:00 LivingRoomPi room-assistant[3498]: 11/24/2022, 1:15:00 PM - info - BluetoothLowEnergyService: Discovered nearby BLE peripheral c9cb1a7189e2 with ID c9cb1a7189e2 and RSSI -68 Nov 24 13:15:00 LivingRoomPi room-assistant[3498]: 11/24/2022, 1:15:00 PM - info - BluetoothLowEnergyService: Discovered nearby BLE peripheral eb508fe95fe2 with ID eb508fe95fe2 and RSSI -62 Nov 24 13:15:00 LivingRoomPi room-assistant[3498]: 11/24/2022, 1:15:00 PM - info - BluetoothLowEnergyService: Discovered nearby BLE peripheral f20260a3dfb7 with ID f20260a3dfb7 and RSSI -80 Nov 24 13:15:00 LivingRoomPi room-assistant[3498]: 11/24/2022, 1:15:00 PM - info - BluetoothLowEnergyService: Discovered nearby BLE peripheral f8a9116a12a3 with ID f8a9116a12a3 and RSSI -67 Nov 24 13:15:02 LivingRoomPi room-assistant[3498]: 11/24/2022, 1:15:02 PM - info - BluetoothLowEnergyService: Discovered nearby BLE peripheral cae0412f553d with ID cae0412f553d and RSSI -66

[lorenzothurman]

It just got weird. I just did 'sudo hciconfig hci0 down' and stopped/started the RA instance on the Pi that does not see BLE broadcasts and what do I see in the log after restarting RA?

`No BLE (no discovery after initialize):
Nov 24 12:54:06 DenPi room-assistant[912]: 24/11/2022, 12:54:06 - info - ClusterService: denpi has been elected as leader Nov 24 12:54:06 DenPi room-assistant[912]: 24/11/2022, 12:54:06 - info - ClusterService: Added xxx.xxx.xxx:6425 to the cluster with id bedroompi Nov 24 12:54:06 DenPi room-assistant[912]: 24/11/2022, 12:54:06 - info - ClusterService: Added xxx.xxx.xxx:6425] to the cluster with id living-room Nov 24 12:54:07 DenPi room-assistant[912]: 24/11/2022, 12:54:07 - info - ClusterService: Added xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6425 to the cluster with id basement

Nothing else after this, unless another cluster leader is elected.`

Same as before, but as hci0 is down, I would expect 'interface not found' errors or some such as RA started up. Somebody please talk me down, its getting early.

[lorenzothurman]

I think I found the answer:
The installation media may be at issue. I used RaspberryPi imager to install the Lite version of Raspbian. I just rebuilt the box using and image burned to SD via Etcher. This works and I see the BLE broadcasts.