Stream Music from PC to Audio System via Bluetooth

[tempestuous]

Great news. Based on rcrsn51's results, I have created a "hotfix" dotpet from the following Trusty Tahr packages:
gir1.2-glib-2.0_1.40.0-1ubuntu0.2_i386
libgirepository-1.0-1_1.40.0-1ubuntu0.2_i386
python-dbus_1.2.0-2build2_i386
python-gi_3.12.0-1ubuntu1_i386

Download here -
http://www.smokey01.com/tempestuous/str ... fix-01.pet
For now you need to install this in addition to the original "bluez_4.101-for-streaming.pet"
Eventually I will repackage everything together.

My instructions appear to be correct. Refer earlier post -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 646#822646

[Semme]

Kattman, you may need this pkg to bring 6.0 up to speed..

[rcrsn51]

My instructions appear to be correct.

See my comment about possibly needing the hci0 argument with bluez-simple-agent. That was crucial with my speaker.

[tempestuous]

OK, I have updated the instructions. Eventually I will create a new post in the "HOWTO" section.

A question, please; if you reboot, then start the bluetooth daemon,
will your Puppy computer then automatically pair with your bluetooth receiver?
Or do you have to run the "bluez-simple-agent ..." command again?

[rcrsn51]

if you reboot, then start the bluetooth daemon,will your Puppy computer then automatically pair with your bluetooth receiver?

Yes.

Or do you have to run the "bluez-simple-agent ..." command again?

No.

[tempestuous]

Useful information. Thanks.

On the next reboot, the bluetooth service did not start automatically, so I had to run

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/etc/init.d/bluetooth start

Yes, very strange. I was thinking that the bluetooth daemon fails to start at bootup because maybe a bluetooth interface is not yet active ... but no, I can start the bluetooth daemon even when a bluetooth device is not present.

So maybe for the final dotpet package I should remove the bluetooth start script from /etc/init.d
and just have the end-user launch the daemon on-demand, possibly from a desktop icon??

[rcrsn51]

There is a lot of stuff in /etc/init.d/bluetooth that I don't understand and doesn't seem to be mission-critical. Maybe it could all be replaced with a line to start bluetoothd.

[tempestuous]

Ideally I would like to have some form of tray button, to toggle the bluetooth daemon on and off.

[tempestuous]

rcrsn51 has written a tray applet for this, and I have repackaged all files. Details here -
"Bluetooth + streaming for tahrpup 6.x"
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=97456