Adding Bluetooth Low Energy dongle / installing bluez

Per Johan Groland

Is there any information available on how to set up a Bluetooth Low Energy USB dongle on the Omega and install bluez?

Boken Lin

Hi @Per-Johan-Groland. BLE drivers and documentation will be made available in the next release of the Console in the next couple of weeks.

Cheers!

Justin Cano

ETA on BLE drivers?

OpheliaAutumn

Hello,

I'm trying to use the BLE dongle but so far I can't see the device.
I have installed bluez-utils and bluez-lib using opkg install, and tried a lot of things like changing the /etc/config/bluetooth file, but whatever I do, when I run

hcitool scan

I get: "Device is not available: Address family not supported by protocol"

When I run

bluetoothd

nothing seems to happen

and when I run

bluetoothctl

I can't write anything in the console anymore and have to ctl C it.

Andrei Railean

I got my Bluetooth dongle today.
Looking forward to official instructions on how it should be used.
Tried installing the bluetooth kernel extensions and am getting errors:

opkg install kmod-bluetooth_6lowpan
...
Collected errors:
 * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for kmod-bluetooth_6lowpan:
 *      kernel (= 3.18.20-1-7bed08fa9c06eb8089e82c200340ec66)

I think I need to try using opkg --force-depends install the extension, but i'm no hurry to do it as I don't quite know what to do with Bluetooth once I have it all working.

PS: I'm running Ω-ware: 0.0.5 b234

Andrei Railean

tried running --force-depends and promptly ran out of space as expected. now cleaning up.

OpheliaAutumn

On this new thread @Lazar-Demin said support might be expected shortly...
I hope it's true I'd really like to use my bluetooth expansion