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Bluetooth

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

  • ASUSTek Computer, Inc. Broadcom BCM20702A0 Bluetooth USB Adapter

Yes


Using Bluetooth on the device:

Before start make sure that the bluetooth service is running.

  • nano /etc/default/bluetooth

  • set BLUETOOTH_ENABLED=1 and save the file

  • 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

Bash
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.

Bash
hciconfig hci0 up

hcitool scan

Wait few moment to complete the hcitool scan, the results will be something like bellow.

Bash
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.