[Chester LUG] USB Bluetooth dongle working with Ubuntu 16.04 etc.

Tony TF tf+lug at tonyf.co.uk
Wed Mar 1 23:40:25 UTC 2017


I don't know how much help it would be but there's some useful information
for Raspberry Pi addon hardware and as it's running a fairly normal Linux
(though perhaps driver differences could be an issue) It's probably worth a
look. see http://elinux.org/RPi_USB_Bluetooth_adapters

Tony

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Roger Gibson via Chester <
chester at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi,  Looking on-line I get very mixed messages about what USB Bluetooth
> Dongle might work with any Linux flavour.  Mostly the messages are posted
> by disgruntled folk about dongles not working.  Has anyone any advice about
> a dongle that does work? I've never needed Bluetooth before, but we now
> have a Fitbit, which speaks only Bluetooth.  I would be most dischuffed if
> I had to resort to Windoze for this.  Many thanks - Roger.
>
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