Gnome Not Reporting Bluetooth Earbuds Battery? Enable the D-Bus Interface

I use one of these true wireless Edifier earbuds.

I noticed how Android reports the battery level of these earphones. But Gnome doesn’t.

Turns out, you need to enable the experimental D-Bus interface in the Bluetooth daemon on Linux for Gnome to know the battery level of the connected wireless earbuds.

On Arch Linux (which I use, btw), I had to modify /etc/bluetooth/main.conf and set:

Experimental = true

You will probably find a # Experimental = false line in that file that you can uncomment and change from false to true.

Then, restart the Bluetooth daemon:

sudo systemctl restart bluetooth.service

And now, Gnome reports the battery level of the earbuds under the Power tab in Gnome Settings.

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