On the device Bluetooth is supported over several USB Adapter.
Supported USB Adapters:
|
Adapter |
Tested |
|---|---|
|
CSR 4.0 Bluetooth USB Adapter |
Yes |
|
Broadcom Blutonium based devices
|
Yes |
Using Bluetooth on the device:
Before start make sure that the bluetooth service is running.
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nano /etc/default/bluetooth
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set BLUETOOTH_ENABLED=1 and save the file
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restart service with: /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart
Next make sure that your bluetooth usb adapter pluged you can check that with the rfkill command
rfkill list
Bring up the bluetooth device with hciconfig command and start scanning, make sure the target device's bluetooth is on and It's discoverable.
hciconfig hci0 up
hcitool scan
Wait few moment to complete the hcitool scan, the results will be something like bellow.
Scanning ...
83:23:26:15:54:46 sat_P
Here 83:23:26:15:54:46 is the bluetooth MAC address and sat_P is the name of the bluetooth device, i.e. an Android phone.