Arto's Notes re: Bluetooth

Enable experimental features

$ echo 'NOPLUGIN_OPTION="-E"' > /etc/default/bluetooth
$ service bluetooth restart

$ cp -p /lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service /etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.service
$ sed -i 's:/usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd:/usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd -E:' bluetooth.service
$ systemctl reenable bluetooth.service
$ systemctl restart bluetooth.service
$ systemctl status bluetooth.service

Install from source

• https://learn.adafruit.com/install-bluez-on-the-raspberry-pi/installation
• http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/bluez.html

$ sudo apt purge bluez bluez-hcidump bluez-obexd libbluetooth-dev

$ sudo apt install -y libdbus-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libical-dev libreadline-dev libudev-dev libusb-dev
$ ./configure --enable-library --enable-experimental
$ make
$ sudo make install

$ sudo systemctl reenable bluetooth
$ sudo systemctl start bluetooth
$ systemctl status bluetooth

Miscellaneous

$ hciconfig
$ sudo hciconfig hci1 up
$ sudo hciconfig hci0 down

$ sudo hcitool lescan
$ sudo hcitool -i hci1 lescan

$ bluetoothctl