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From: covici@××××××××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] bluez 5 not connecting
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:59:46
Message-Id: 27409.1398254378@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] bluez 5 not connecting by William Kenworthy
1 William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> wrote:
2
3 > The bluez-5 stack is causing me some problems. It will pair but then
4 > says its not paired so wont connect. Googling shows lots of problems
5 > with many saying it suddenly starts working and they don't know what
6 > happened!
7 >
8 > The BT dongle worked fine under bluez-3 and 4. The other end is an
9 > arduino which needs to be connected via an rfcomm channel (for serial
10 > comms) and the hardware on both ends has been working for literally years.
11 >
12 > After upgrading to bluez-5 it stopped working.
13 >
14 > I used bluetoothctl to pair it and info shows it paired and trusted, but
15 > I cant connect to it:
16 >
17 > [bluetooth]# info 00:11:03:17:01:12
18 > Device 00:11:03:17:01:12
19 > Name: anubis
20 > Alias: anubis
21 > Class: 0x001f00
22 > Paired: yes
23 > Trusted: yes
24 > Blocked: no
25 > Connected: no
26 > LegacyPairing: yes
27 > UUID: Serial Port
28 > (00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
29 > [bluetooth]# connect 00:11:03:17:01:12
30 > Attempting to connect to 00:11:03:17:01:12
31 > [CHG] Device 00:11:03:17:01:12 Connected: yes
32 > Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.NotAvailable
33 > [CHG] Device 00:11:03:17:01:12 Connected: no
34 > [bluetooth]#
35 >
36 >
37 > What am I missing/misunderstanding?
38
39 Make sure you have at least 5.14, below that mine did not work at all.
40 Try the connect from blutoothctl and seewhat it says. Also, you have to
41 put the device up before you do anything, such as hciconfig hci0 up
42 whereas before you did not have to do this.
43
44 --
45 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
46 How do
47 you spend it?
48
49 John Covici
50 covici@××××××××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] bluez 5 not connecting William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>