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

[Les Pritchard]

Hi Roger,

Yes Tony's suggestion is a good first step. I have an old Belkin Bluetooth
dongle that works fine on Linux. Does the Fitbit need to run some Windows
software? I've never tried Bluetooth with Wine.

Les

On 1 March 2017 at 23:40, Tony TF via Chester <chester at mailman.lug.org.uk>
wrote:

> 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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