[CLOSED] Support for bluez bluetooth low energy

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Issue by dragom
Wednesday Jan 08, 2014 at 19:54 GMT
Originally opened as arduino/linino#21

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Is it possible to upgrade bluez libraries to latest one to have support for LE?
Current one looks that don't have le functions.

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Comment by fibasile
Wednesday Jan 08, 2014 at 21:27 GMT

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Hi, I've compiled the bluez 5 and it works fine. It's quite big package and many files must be removed to fit into flash. I think I can send a pull request during the weekend.

Il giorno 08/gen/2014, alle ore 20:54, Dragoslav Mlakar notifications@github.com ha scritto:

Is it possible to upgrade bluez libraries to latest one to have support for LE?
Current one looks that don't have le functions.

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Comment by dragom
Wednesday Jan 08, 2014 at 21:38 GMT

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Great!!!
I'm trying to use bleno (https://github.com/sandeepmistry/bleno) on top of it. So I will also use node and npm. Probably can also use your packages?

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Comment by fibasile
Saturday Jan 11, 2014 at 12:15 GMT

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While I find the time for a full pull request, please find attached the Makefile i'm using for the bluez package. Just create a bluez folder into the trunk/feeds/packages/utils/ and compile it.

#
# Copyright (C) 2006-2012 OpenWrt.org
#
# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
# See /LICENSE for more information.
#

include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk

PKG_NAME:=bluez
PKG_VERSION:=5.11
PKG_RELEASE:=1

PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth
PKG_MD5SUM:=0e3b3d3f5bf40ac7cd4df96da9aa24aa

PKG_FIXUP:=autoreconf

include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/nls.mk

define Package/bluez
  SECTION:=utils
  CATEGORY:=Utilities
  DEPENDS:=+libpthread +libusb-compat +glib2 +dbus +udev $(INTL_DEPENDS) $(ICONV_DEPENDS)
  TITLE:=Bluetooth stack new version 
  URL:=http://www.bluez.org/
endef

define Package/bluez/conffiles
/etc/config/bluetooth
endef

CONFIGURE_ARGS += \
    --enable-library \
    --disable-systemd \
    --disable-monitor \
    --disable-cups \
        --disable-client \
        --disable-obex \
    --enable-usb \
    --disable-audio \
    --with-usb=yes \
    --with-udevdir="$(STAGING_DIR)/lib/udev"

define Build/Compile
    $(MAKE) -C $(PKG_BUILD_DIR) \
        LDFLAGS="$(TARGET_LDFLAGS) \
            -L$(ICONV_PREFIX)/lib \
            -L$(INTL_PREFIX)/lib -lm" \
        DESTDIR="$(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)" \
        all install
endef

define Package/bluez/install
    $(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/bin
    $(CP) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/bin/hciconfig $(1)/usr/bin/
    $(CP) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/bin/hcitool $(1)/usr/bin/
endef

$(eval $(call BuildPackage,bluez))

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Comment by dragom
Saturday Jan 11, 2014 at 14:46 GMT

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Great! Will try. I'm just struggling to make basic build work. Will let you know when I am able to test it.
https://github.com/dragom/linino

No additional patch, config files? Just Makefile?

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Comment by fibasile
Saturday Jan 11, 2014 at 16:05 GMT

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Yes, you need only this with the flags provided it compiles.
Il 11/gen/2014 15:46 "Dragoslav Mlakar" notifications@github.com ha
scritto:

Great! Will try. I'm just struggling to make basic build work. Will let
you know when I am able to test it.
https://github.com/dragom/linino

No additional patch, config files? Just Makefile?

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Comment by dragom
Saturday Jan 11, 2014 at 16:13 GMT

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Thnx again. Will let you know how it goes.
Probably will work the same also with 5.13 and appropriate PKG_MD5SUM.

Do you have any experience using bleno,noble on Yun?

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Comment by dragom
Saturday Jan 11, 2014 at 20:53 GMT

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It works! I am able to use Yun as ble beacon with this one
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-USB-4-0-Bluetooth-Adapter/dp/B009IQB3US
Now I will try to put also nodejs and bleno in action.

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Comment by tigoe
Saturday Jan 11, 2014 at 22:13 GMT

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Any luck getting BT Audio to work? I didn't have much luck with that.

t.

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It works! I am able to use Yun as ble beacon with this one
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-USB-4-0-Bluetooth-Adapter/dp/B009IQB3US
Now I will try to put also nodejs and bleno in action.

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Comment by fibasile
Sunday Jan 12, 2014 at 10:14 GMT

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Personally I didn't try with audio.

Anyway, to compile audio support you need to edit bluez Makefile removing the --disable-audio flag. No idea if it compiles without errors.

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Comment by fibasile
Sunday Jan 12, 2014 at 10:16 GMT

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@dragom I tried to have it working as a beacon with two different dongles with no success. Can you paste the commands you are using?

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Comment by dragom
Sunday Jan 12, 2014 at 10:44 GMT

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@fibasile
I have problems that device is recognized as bluetooth.
This works with ubuntu but not on linino:
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As root:

1. Create the file:
   /etc/udev/rules.d/99-local-bluetooth.rules

2. Add the following line to the file:
   SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="050d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="065a", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'modprobe btusb; echo 050d 065a > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/btusb/new_id'"

3. To pick up the change
   either
   Restart the udev service:
   /etc/init.d/udev restart
   or
   reboot
   //

So I manually activate when dongle is plugged in with:
root@DrYun:# hciconfig
root@DrYun:# echo 050d 065a > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/btusb/new_id
root@DrYun:~# hciconfig
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: 00:02:72:3E:1C:44 ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1
UP RUNNING
RX bytes:495 acl:0 sco:0 events:22 errors:0
TX bytes:369 acl:0 sco:0 commands:22 errors:0

root@DrYun:# hciconfig hci0 up
root@DrYun:# hciconfig hci0 leadv

@tigoe Will try to compile with removing --disable-audio and version of bluez 5.13, publish ipk so you can try

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Comment by fibasile
Sunday Jan 12, 2014 at 10:56 GMT

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@dragom thx. I used a CSR 4.0 dongle and another unbranded one, both work fine on the detection phase. But none of them shows up as iBeacon. I was using the raspberry pi tutorial from radius network for that.
I just saw a new tutorial from Adafruit (http://learn.adafruit.com/pibeacon-ibeacon-with-a-raspberry-pi), so I'll try again. Looks like issuing hciconfig hci0 noscan after your last command should do it.

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Comment by dragom
Sunday Jan 12, 2014 at 11:35 GMT

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@tigoe
https://github.com/dragom/linino/releases/tag/bluez513

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Comment by fibasile
Sunday Jan 12, 2014 at 13:06 GMT

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Great, I can confirm iBeacon is now working using your latest ipk build and the adafruit tutorial linked above.

The dongle is an IOGear bluetooth 4.0 adapter (http://www.iogear.com/product/GBU521/)

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Comment by dragom
Sunday Jan 12, 2014 at 18:54 GMT

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@fibasile
How do you make that system recognize adapter as bluetooth device?
This do not work for me :
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="050d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="065a", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'modprobe btusb; echo 050d 065a > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/btusb/new_id'"

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Comment by fibasile
Sunday Jan 12, 2014 at 19:02 GMT

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I just installed kmod-bluetooth ipk and plugged the device. Modprobe stuff
should be long gone in these recent versions of linux.

2014/1/12 Dragoslav Mlakar notifications@github.com

@fibasile https://github.com/fibasile
How do you make that system recognize adapter as bluetooth device?
This do not work for me :

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="050d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="065a",
RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'modprobe btusb; echo 050d 065a >
/sys/bus/usb/drivers/btusb/new_id'"

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