pBluetooth 3.2 - the bluetooth manager

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Argolance · #21 Post by **Argolance** » Wed 31 Jan 2018, 10:40

Bonjour,

mistfire wrote:@Argolance
Network - Bluetooth can establish networking to other bluetooth device like LAN called Personal Area Network (PAN)
Serial - Serial communication via bluetooth. It is used for accessing the contents of an feature phone or smartphone. It is sometimes used to sync between pc and the phone
Nice interface that you made

Many thanks for your answer.
"Nice" but actually not functional because moving from dialog to Xdialog is not an easy task (for me): I'm currently making some progress...

Cordialement.

matchpoint · #22 Post by **matchpoint** » Sat 03 Feb 2018, 17:07

Update: Running with an almost pristine save of Tahr_6.0.5/32b, mistfires`three packages go off without a fuss when loading audio into DeaDBeeF. There are however a few small details to sort before pairing becomes available. For anyone looking to test, step right up. The details aren't complicated, but they are essential.

Argolance · #23 Post by **Argolance** » Fri 09 Feb 2018, 11:21

Bonjour,

pBluetooth wrote:Bring device up (if down), Bringing device up...

What does "bring up" mean? Difficult to translate unless you know what this command consists of...
Thank you.

Cordialement.

Argolance · #24 Post by **Argolance** » Sun 11 Feb 2018, 09:30

Bonjour,

PacificRW wrote:I repeat myself but I insist on the fact that with headsets, when configuring, at some point in time, I'm faced with a request for a choice of Bluetooth channel. I can choose between... 100 channels! How do I know?
I tested about 20 of them. Without success.

Source
Good question...

Cordialement

LeithR · #25 Post by **LeithR** » Sun 11 Feb 2018, 11:52

I'm running Slacko6.9.9.9 and would very much like to use Bluetooth when I watch movies. I've downloaded the above .pets etc... but when I try opening the bluetooth manager in Network (I do have the bluetooth entry in there)
I get a splashscreen with:

No bluetooth adapters found.
Switch ON the bluetooth adapter or plug it in. And an option to click OK.

Clicking OK does nothing.

I do not get the bluetooth icon in my bottom right menu bar.

matchpoint · #26 Post by **matchpoint** » Sun 11 Feb 2018, 12:08

Hello LeithR,

Which items were installed from page 1?

Does either "sdptool browse" or "hcitool scan" see your device?

Is the Bluetooth daemon running (htop, then F3 to search: bluetoothd)?

If those commands don't discover your device, post your "lsmod" output here and leave a link.

LeithR · #27 Post by **LeithR** » Sun 11 Feb 2018, 12:37

From the first post in this thread I downloaded and installed all of these:
- bluez (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2FRk ... VBhaDgwUzA)
- bluez-alsa (already included in the package)
- bluez-tools (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2FRk ... lpXZTFBS1U)
- obexd
- a2dp-alsa by jamesbond (already included in the package, Source code: http://www.lightofdawn.org/wiki/wiki.cg ... 02.tar.bz2)

I also downloaded pBluetooth-1.1.pet

The two commands you asked me to try gave the following results:

# sdptool browse
Inquiring ...
Inquiry failed
# hcitool scan
Device is not available: No such device

The link to my posting on postbin is https://pastebin.ca/3971124

matchpoint · #28 Post by **matchpoint** » Sun 11 Feb 2018, 12:58

The opening post can be confusing for some: a2dp-alsa by jamesbond (already included in the package)

You're a victim.

If you were to extract the contents of mistfires`pBluetooth pet, you'd find "a2dp-alsa" packaged along with it.

No problem, but I'd probably remove it, then reinstall the pBluetooth pet.

You didn't comment whether bluetoothd was running, which would correspond with those commands failing.

And having looked at your lsmod it's obvious there aren't any bt modules loaded.

I'm also not sure these packages are suitable for Slacko. I'd need to test.

What kind of a bt transmitter is plugged into your computer?

LeithR · #29 Post by **LeithR** » Sun 11 Feb 2018, 13:18

It would appear that I'm on a hiding to nothing, I don't have a BT dongle fitted, didn't clearly understand that I required one. I'll cast about and see if I can get hold of one. Thanks

matchpoint · #30 Post by **matchpoint** » Sun 11 Feb 2018, 15:48

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did18 · #31 Post by **did18** » Tue 13 Feb 2018, 17:06

Hello mistfire

Would it be possible to modify pBluettoth so that the button "Bring device up (if down)" displays the real state of the device?
For example a green circle if the device is active.
Round orange if it's on standby.
Red circle if stopped.

Would it also be possible to display the signal strength as a percentage?
Thanks.

Have a nice day.

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Pro · #32 Post by **Pro** » Mon 19 Feb 2018, 12:33

Signal strength without realtime update - not needed for all. Realtime indication from script not implemented

reliant_turbo · #33 Post by **reliant_turbo** » Tue 25 Dec 2018, 22:00

i just installed this pet today and the required libraries and got this error.

bluetooth-agent: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.3: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

any ideas? im not quite done digging yet but wondered if anyone had this same issue here.

thanks

Brian

reliant_turbo · #34 Post by **reliant_turbo** » Tue 25 Dec 2018, 23:22

hmmmm loaded the 32 bit libraries and it seemed to take care of the first issue.

now i have this error when i try to pair:

Pairing...
Can't get default adapter
Method "DefaultAdapter" with signature "" on interface "org.bluez.Manager" doesn't exist

Done.

more fiddling.....

Brian

reliant_turbo · #35 Post by **reliant_turbo** » Tue 25 Dec 2018, 23:51

hmmmm. maybe i jumped the gun and didnt RTFM......

I installed the packages via the puppy package manager and they were newer revisions.

should i have stuck to the ones in the thread?

i think ill whip up a fresh usb and stick to the instructions to a T.

also, im using an ASUS BT211 usb dongle.

Brian

Semme · #36 Post by **Semme** » Wed 26 Dec 2018, 11:28

Hello Brian >> <Content removed due to lack of interest....>

mistfire · #37 Post by **mistfire** » Thu 30 May 2019, 06:11

New version of pbluetooth is released

It has a big improvements on detection management and it has now send file feature (highly experimental)

UPDATE: Sending file over bluetooth works. Requires obexftp

mistfire · #38 Post by **mistfire** » Fri 31 May 2019, 02:12

Take note dependencies of this package was changed.

soniabu · #39 Post by **soniabu** » Sat 19 Oct 2019, 11:56

Hello to all.
As Reliant_turbo (msg up) I have the same error (img attach). My S.O. it's bionicpup64 and I've installed all these blurtooth products: bluez - bluez-tools - obexd - openobex - obexftp.
I also downloaded the 'Bluetooth-3.2.pet' taken from the first page of this topic.
The thing that happens is this:
if I send a photo from my desktop to my cell phone, everything works fine;
vice versa, it gives me an error of non-connection.
In addition - as you can see from following image - if from desktop I request the pairing it gives me an error.
Does anyone have any ideas?
txs Sonia

P.S. sorry for the big picture; otherwise the error message could not be seen.

mistfire · #40 Post by **mistfire** » Fri 08 Nov 2019, 09:49

@soniabu as of now pBluetooth was 32-bit. I'm trying to make pbluetooth architecture free. Your puppy was 64-bit so you must install 32-bit compatiblity sfs modules

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