I was able to get BT working on wandboard under CSOS F19 but it wasn't easy. The main problem I kept on running into is that different versions of Bluez have radically different interfaces making things very difficult when you get scripts off the internet, they will only work with one specific version of Bluez, and of course most of the time they don't tell you what version they DO work with.
Getting the pairing to work with simple_agent required loading something like 20 packages, but eventually I did get the propper set. It was maddening because there were different versions of the packages for different Bluez versions. Fairly frequently I had a set of packages that was working, but needed something else for the next stage, and it "updated" the other packages to newer versions that didn't work any more. Getting the right packages that ALL worked with the bluez version in question was not easy. I thought the package versioning system was supposed to make all this work, but in this case it broke down rather spectacularly. I did manage to get it working with just ALSA, no PA, but the latency was HUGE. One inportant thing to realize about the ALSA BT implementation is that it does NOT provide a "device" ie CARD. It produces a PCM stream. These don't show up when doing aplay -l, you have to do aplay -L to see them. And you refer to them by name, you can't use hw:0,1 etc, that refers to devices and these aren't. Once I got that worked out I was able to get squeezelite to send music to the BT device quite nicely. Of course with Bluez 5 all this goes out the window. Happy hunting with bluez 5! John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101286 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
