The remote will connect -iff- bluetooth is enabled before you start looking for servers. However - if you don't have bluetooth enabled - you can see from the status bar that the app is -trying- to enable bluetooth, which it does silently - but it gives no feedback on that, and it 100% refuses to find anything having done it [ is there some improved polling / re-scanning stuff required there ? ]. Worse exiting seems to stop bluetooth again such that even a second start doesn't find the remote machine. Either way this makes the user-experiences un-necessarily confusing / painful - we should (presumably) either re-scan when bluetooth is enabled - or refuse to start unless bluetooth is manually enabled (?).
moved to the correct module
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Andrzej Hunt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3cc31f89787e435c893b38a0adc0a23f566ab60f fdo#60486 Fix auto-enabling bluetooth and improve bluetooth handling. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Andrzej Hunt committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=17e7bc358faab29ddb524d478f6b5ca2fed1a5f8 Revert "fdo#60486 Fix auto-enabling bluetooth and improve bluetooth handling." The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Moving bug to (new) 'Impress Remote' product.
Michael: Are we fixed here? (I see a patch, but status is still 'NEW')
closing. Bluetooth handling has been revamped significantly since the original report (for example it will not enable silently when not enabled already, it will show known devices and not only do bt-scanning and rely on visible devices, etc. Any remaining problem is different than the original one.