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From: Ralf <ralf+gentoo@×××××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly set up Bluetooth
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:49:07
Message-Id: 53038F04.4060608@ramses-pyramidenbau.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to properly set up Bluetooth by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 I got it working!
2
3 But I can't reproduce what i did..
4
5 I played around with "bluetoothctl" which seems to be a interactive
6 replacement for simple-agent.
7 After powering my bluetooth device on and off, trusting and untrusting,
8 pairing and unpairing for several times it now *seems* to work.
9 It even connects automatically after turning it on :-)
10
11 Bluetooth stuff is really weird....
12
13 Thanks!
14
15 On 02/18/14 17:20, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
16 > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Ralf
17 > <ralf+gentoo@×××××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
18 >> On 02/18/14 17:10, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
19 >>
20 >> systemctl status bluetooth.service
21 >>
22 >>
23 >> Yes, sure, as I wrote above.
24 >>
25 >> Active: active (running) since Tue 2014-02-18 16:57:05 CET; 15min ago
26 >>
27 >> ps auxw|grep bluetoot
28 >> root 3571 27.6 0.0 21200 2112 ? Rs 16:57 4:29
29 >> /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd
30 >>
31 >> As you see everything is actually running fine... I even tried to restart it
32 >> several times
33 > OK, sorry, I hadn't read carefully your first post. blueman-applet
34 > fails because it uses the 4.x dbus API from bluez. gnome-bluetooth
35 > uses the 5.x dbus API, and AFAIK, right now it's the only tool using
36 > it.
37 >
38 > So, with gnome-bluetooth you can detect your keyboard but the pairing
39 > fails? You say you paired the keyboard correctly with your android
40 > phone; you don't need to do something in the keyboard to pair it to a
41 > different hosts? Something like keep pressing the power button?
42 >
43 > Regards.

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