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Hi Martin,
it seems like you successfully installed everything, but now the Pi is loosing the bluetooth connection or the bluetooth connection is not very stable.
You are using some peripherals (connected) to your Pi that drain some power. USB-Stick, Wifi and Bluetooth used together might be the issue for the bluetooth drops.
What you can try: use ethernet connection and no USB-Stick to confirm that bluetooth is working. If that is the case you might use a different power-supply or connect the USB-Storage to an active hub. If bluetooth is still a problem, you might also try a external bluetooth stick. To use this, you need to disable the build in bluetooth device on the „Raspberry Pi Stettings“ tab in the webinterface. When using Wifi and Bluetooth together the connection quality for bluetooth was not the best in our testing.
Cheers,
Stefan