Bluetooth
Bluetooth boot messages
During boot the following Bluetooth kernel messages are received:
# dmesg | grep -i Bluetooth Bluetooth: Core ver 2.18 Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.2 Bluetooth: HCI H4 protocol initialized Bluetooth: HCI BCSP protocol initialized Bluetooth: HCIATH3K protocol initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2 Bluetooth: HIDP socket layer initialized
Device identification
After the File system is up 'hciconfig' should show the connected bluetooth module.
# hciconfig hci0 up # hciconfig hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: UART BD Address: 64:A3:CB:5B:69:F0 ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1 UP RUNNING PSCAN RX bytes:1772 acl:0 sco:0 events:69 errors:0 TX bytes:1152 acl:0 sco:0 commands:65 errors:0
The hcitool can be used to show the Bluetooth MAC address of the Bluetooth module with the respective hci connection.
# hcitool dev Devices: hci0 64:A3:CB:5B:69:F0
Type help to show commands.
# hcitool --help
Managing bluetooth
You can manage bluetooth with bluetoothctl, type 'bluetoothctl' and enter the interface. Type help to show commands.
For connecting a device do the following:
# bluetoothctl [bluetooth]# power on [bluetooth]# agent off [bluetooth]# agent on [bluetooth]# default-agent [bluetooth]# pairable on Push the connect button in the device [bluetooth]# scan on Copy mac address [bluetooth]# scan off [bluetooth]# pair <mac address> Approve pairing on Device if required [bluetooth]# trust <mac address> [bluetooth]# connect <mac address> [bluetooth]# quit
For example when connecting a microsoft bluetooth mouse the following is done:
# bluetoothctl [NEW] Controller 50:72:24:11:EF:B0 BlueZ 5.28 [default] [bluetooth]# power on Changing power on succeeded [bluetooth]# default-agent No agent is registered [bluetooth]# pairable on Changing pairable on succeeded [bluetooth]# scan on Discovery started [CHG] Controller 50:72:24:11:EF:B0 Discovering: yes [NEW] Device 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 [bluetooth]# scan off [CHG] Device 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 RSSI is nil Discovery stopped [CHG] Controller 50:72:24:11:EF:B0 Discovering: no [bluetooth]# pair 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 Attempting to pair with 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 [CHG] Device 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 Connected: yes [CHG] Device 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 Modalias: usb:v045Ep0700d0100 [CHG] Device 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 UUIDs: 00001000-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb 00001124-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb 00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb [CHG] Device 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 Paired: yes Pairing successful [CHG] Device 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 Connected: no [bluetooth]# trust 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 [CHG] Device 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 Trusted: yes Changing 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 trust succeeded [bluetooth]# connect 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 Attempting to connect to 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 [CHG] Device 00:1D:D8:39:93:46 Connected: yes [bluetooth]# hid-generic 0005:045E:0700.0001: unknown main item tag 0x0 input: Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 as /devices/soc0/soc.0/2100000.aips-bus/21e8000.serial/tty/ttymxc1/hci0/hci0:1/0005:045E:0700.0001/input/input1 Connection successful [bhid-generic 0005:045E:0700.0001: input: BLUETOOTH HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000] on 50:72:24:11:ef:b0 [bluetooth]# quit [DEL] Controller 50:72:24:11:EF:B0 BlueZ 5.28 [default] #