[Hardware Support] Bluetooth and HDMI Audio not working on XpressReal T3 with HAOS (VIM3 Kernel)

Please describe the problem you’ve encountered in detail:

  • Description: I am using XpressReal T3 running Home Assistant OS (based on Khadas VIM3 image). Although the hardware specification lists RTL8852BS (WiFi 6 + BT 5.4), the Bluetooth controller is not detected by the system. bluetoothctl list returns empty, and ls -l /dev/snd shows total 0, indicating that HDMI audio is also missing.

I’ve checked that the system lacks hciattach or rtk_hciattach tools required for initializing the UART Bluetooth module.

Hi,

We will check this issue and provide an update here once there is any new progress.

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Hi,

I saw your Release v0.1 and I’m very impressed by your work. Thank you so much for sharing such a great resource with the community!

I am very interested in learning how to build a custom image myself. I want to try building HAOS 17.1 for the XpressReal T3. Could you please guide me on how to create a custom .img like you did?

Hi, we are now migrating HAOS 17.1 for XpressReal T3, will post the building process and source code to github later.


Bluetooth is working on haos now :wink: