[Chester LUG] USB Bluetooth dongle working with Ubuntu 16.04 etc.
Roger Gibson
roger at rcgibson.plus.com
Thu Mar 2 18:20:28 UTC 2017
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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