Once you have your RPi paired with another device you have a Bluetooth link, but you still need to set up another protocol over the Bluetooth called "RFCOMM" to provide an emulated serial connection between the two devices. Setting The RPi to create a serial connection to a Bluetooth device at startup Enter the command: sudo […]

WARNING – Bluetooth on the RPi can be a nightmare and result in massive time loss!  If it just works for you then great (and consider sharing how). If it doesn't and after hitting your head against a wall for hour after hour it still doesn't it isn't just you (search online RPi forums for 'bluetooth' […]

In these notes "xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" means the MAC address of the remote bluetooth device Reset Bluetooth Adaptor sudo hciconfig hci0 reset Restart Bluetooth Service sudo invoke-rc.d bluetooth restart List Bluetooth Adaptors hciconfig Scan for Bluetooth devices hcitool scan To then connect to one of the found devices  you can use this: sudo bluez-simple-agent hci0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Make The […]