Background

I had a problem that when trying to pair my AirPods to my X13 Yoga running NixOS 23.05, it would show up in Gnome’s bluetooth settings panel when I put them in discovery mode, but when I clicked the AirPods in the UI, the stack would crash and restart. I noticed tim-hilt/nixos had a note about setting the ControllerMode to bredr and this didn’t work for me at first but I think maybe restarting the bluetooth stack resolved my issue. askubuntu also suggested bredr.