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

[Roger Gibson]

Thanks to both Les and Tony.  I'll follow these up. Interestingly, 
Belkin is one of the ones that seems to give a lot of grief on-line.  
Still, it's not as if I'm spending a fortune - Roger.

On 02/03/17 17:20, Les Pritchard via Chester wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>     <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 <mailto: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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