Make sure Packages are Installed

Bluez and bluez-utils are required for bluetooth ctl.

Start/Enable Bluetooth Service

# systemctl start bluetooth.service

Start bluetoothctl

# bluetoothctl

This will start an interactive prompt.

# exit

to exit

Enter Scan

# scan on

to begin looking for devices to pair.

Pair

You can highlight the mac address of the device you want to pair then:

ctrl+shift+c

to copy it to the clipboard. then type

# pair ctrl+shift+v

to copy in the mac address. once this is successful move onto the next step.

Connect

# connect ctrl+shift+v

to copy the mac address back in and connect to the device.