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

[Les Pritchard]

I think Belkin gets a rough time online most of the time!

On Mar 2, 2017 6:19 PM, "Roger Gibson" <roger at rcgibson.plus.com> wrote:

> 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>
> 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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