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Provide instructions to run without being root #1

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kamaradclimber opened this issue Mar 26, 2017 · 1 comment

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kamaradclimber commented Mar 26, 2017

Common instructions (http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96106/bluetooth-le-scan-as-non-root) do not seem to work correctly.

We should have a way to run as non-root.

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kirichkov commented Dec 24, 2017 •

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On Raspbian Jessie the common instructions used to work out of the box. In Stretch, one should install consolekit

$ sudo apt-get install consolekit

If you are still having issues on Raspbian try the following:

Add the user (e.g. pi) that will be running the scanner to the bluetooth group:

sudo adduser pi bluetooth

Edit /etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf
2.1. Find the line <policy group="bluetooth">
2.2. Add below it <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable"/>

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