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.
Type help to show commands.
Managing Bluetooth¶
You can manage Bluetooth with bluetoothctl. Type bluetoothctl to enter the
interface. Type help to show commands.
For connecting a device do the following:
bluetoothctl
power on
agent off
agent on
default-agent
pairable on
Push the connect button in the device
scan on
Copy mac address
scan off
pair <mac address>
Approve pairing on the device if required
trust <mac address>
connect <mac address>
quit
For example, when connecting a Microsoft Bluetooth mouse, do the following:
bluetoothctl
[NEW] Controller 50:72:24:11:EF:B0 BlueZ 5.28 [default]
power on
Changing power on succeeded
default-agent
No agent is registered
pairable on
Changing pairable on succeeded
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
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
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
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
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
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
quit
[DEL] Controller 50:72:24:11:EF:B0 BlueZ 5.28 [default]