Ahh… thank you for the info about BTLE. I didn’t realize that! I thought though I had to “pair” it with my phone when I first got it but maybe not… I do seem to recall it not showing in the list but thought it was some weird device (just a few random characters) that showed on the list and I hit “pair” and then it seemed to work but was super flakey because of the Pixel 6 issues.
I did reboot everything and it seems to work good now with my Pixel 6 Pro so very cool 