JohnSwenson wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the info - very interesting. Bluez 5 looks even worse than other versions. Is there a simple explanation why BT is easy-peasy in Android and a nightmare in other linux versions? Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logitech UE Smart Radio Raspberry Pi + Squeezeplug LMS + Squeezelite - Logitech Mini Boombox speaker Cubieboard + Fedora 18 + LMS 7.8 + Squeezelite - Soundwave SW100 bluetooth speaker O2 Joggler + SqpOS + Aune X2 T-amp + Mordaunt Short ms-3.40 speakers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101286 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
