I attempted to post the following request on the snapcraft store to start the request process, but was not able to because I am a "new" user (limited to 2 links and one image):
The [chromium](https://snapcraft.io/chromium) web browser has support for [Web Bluetooth](https://webbluetoothcg.github.io/web-bluetooth/). This is still considered experimental on Linux and must be enabled in the Browser setting via [chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web- platform-features](chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform- features). Although technically it is experimental, we have found that it works perfectly well for our web app. [https://code.pybricks.com/](https://code.pybricks.com/) The app can detect if a browser supports Web Bluetooth or not. For example if using Firefox (which doesn't have Web Bluetooth support) or using Chromium with experimental web features disabled, uses will see this error message when clicking the Bluetooth button.  If Web Bluetooth is enabled, users will see this dialog box instead.  However, we recently discovered that [Chromium installed via snap does neither](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium- browser/+bug/1887201). Clicking the Bluetooth button simply does nothing. This can be fixed by manually connecting the Chromium snap to the [BlueZ](https://snapcraft.io/bluez) interface. It does not seem reasonable to expect all web developers using Web Bluetooth to add a special case to their web app to detect Chromium running in a snap without bluez connected (and this is very probably not even technically possible at this point in time) and to communicate to their users that there are extra steps needed to manually configure their web browser via a terminal window. Therefore we are requesting that the chromium snap be allowed to automatically connect to the bluez interface. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1887201 Title: [snap] web bluetooth does not work Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Bug description: Using the site https://code.pybricks.com, clicking the bluetooth icon should start scanning for devices (a dialog box should pop up showing discovered devices). It worked in the debian package of chromium on Ubuntu 20.04 but today apt installed the snap version instead and Bluetooth is no longer working. Clicking the bluetooth button on this site does nothing - no errors are reported in the developer console in chromium. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1887201/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
