Sunday, March 9, 2014

Bluetooth on Raspian

I've had a Raspberry Pi for a while now.  I've tried Rapbian, OpenELEC, and Kali.  I want to set up a remote webcam using an old webcam, so I just grabbed the 2014-01-07-wheezy-raspbian.zip from here.

The first thing I wanted to do was to get bluetooth working.  I followed the instructions here.  The steps are pretty simple.

  1. sudo apt-get update
  2. sudo apt-get install -y bluetooth bluez-utils blueman
Then I used this bluetooth adapter: Plugable USB Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy Micro Adapter.  I plugged it in and went to Preferences | Bluetooth Manager.  I searched for devices after putting a bluetooth keyboard into discover mode.   Once I found it, I hit "+" to trust the device.  Then I right clicked on the device and selected "pair."  I had to enter a PIN using my existing keyboard, hit enter, then enter that PIN on the bluetooth keyboard and hit enter. 

Once it was paired, I trusted it by right clicking on the device and selecting "Trust."  Then the Bluetooth Assistant dialog came up and asked if I wanted to connect to "Input Service" or "Don't connect."  I selected "Input Service."  The device connected and I could finally type.

Next step - get a webcam working.

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