Thingy and blutoothctl - How to read data via Linux console?

Question

Hello everybody! 
 How can i read the temperature, the battery-% or other data from the Thingy when using the Linux console and not the SDK? My steps so far 
 1. With sudo hcitool lescan i was able to find the Thingy, a device with unknown name (but same MAC as the Thingy) and a third one which turns off with the Thingy. 
 2. start bluetoothctl and run info [MACofThingy] displays the name, an alias and trust/block/connect status 
 3. pairing with the Thingy did not work, but connect [MACofThingy] (still in the bluetoothctl environment) did work and showed me nine UUIDs 
 4. diving into gatt submenu: one should be able to list the attributes and read/write them. But this does not work because no attributes are listed. 
 
 Another option i tried was the gatttool -b [MACofThingy] --char-read --uuid=2800 command with the Thingy still connected (green breathing light). The connection got refused (Error 111) for each UUID i tried. 
 
 Operating system is Ubuntu 16.04 on a Thinkpad with its Standard, BLE-capable, Wifi module.

ketil · Answer

Hi, 
 This is likely an issue with your BLE drivers on Linux and not the Thingy:52 itself. See if you can connect to any other BLE devices. If not, you should do an update (or possibly rollback) of your BLE driver. 
 We have have an example of Thingy:52 and Raspberry Pi using Raspbian Jessie which might be helpful. 
 Ketil