Title: bluez.tcz
Description: bluetooth stack
Version: 4.101
Author: see list of sites below
Original-site: see list of sites below
Copying-policy: see list of sites below
Size: 720KB
Extension_by: juanito
Tags: bluetooth bluez
Comments: Official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack
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Optionally can use the alsa/pulseaudio extensions for sound over bluetooth.
Optionally can use the gstreamer and gstplugins-base extensions
Optionally can use the obex and fuse extensions to transfer files
..and mount file systems over bluetooth.
Optionally can use the bluez-gnome/blueman extensions and deps to pair
Optionally can use the python, dbus-python and pygobject..
extensions with simple-agent to pair
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This extension contains:
bluez-4.101 - GPLv2 - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/bluetooth/bluez-4.101.tar.xz
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Howto:
$ sudo /usr/local/etc/init.d/bluez [start|stop|restart|status]
..in my case, this loads all required modules
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Howto pair:
$ echo "0000" | simple-agent hci0 00:1B:66:00:31:88 [0000 for a bt headset]
Release
New device (/org/bluez/11538/hci0/dev_00_1B_66_00_31_88)
...
Howto connect to pulseaudio stream:
$ dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.bluez /org/bluez/11538/hci0/dev_00_1B_66_00_31_88 org.bluez.AudioSink.Connect
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.17 reply_serial=2
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To enable sound with alsa:
$ cp /etc/alsa/example_.asoundrc /home/tc
edit the bluetooth address
..to test bt headphones
$ aplay -Dplug:bluetooth -v /usr/local/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav
..to test bt headset "testing, testing, 1, 2, 3.."
$ arecord -D bluetooth -f S16_LE | aplay -D bluetooth -f S16_LE
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To enable sound with pulseudio:
use blueman to pair
right-click on bt headphones and select "trust" and "audio sink"
use pavucontrol to select bt headphones as output device
use rhythmbox or xmms-pulse to play to bt headphones
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Change-log: 2009/05/01 first version
2009/06/17 Added simple-agent and other applets, updated 4.37 -> 4.41
2009/06/17 Added pand support, updated 4.41 -> 4.43
2009/09/22 updated 4.43 -> 4.53, moved /etc/bluetooth, dbus-1, udev -> /usr/local, added bluetooth cups printer support
2010/01/31 removed start on loading extension
2010/04/11 updated 4.53 -> 4.63, added gstreamer support
2010/05/28 updated init.d script to pass status to services app
2010/11/29 updated 4.63 -> 4.80
2011/01/07 updated 4.80 -> 4.81 and stripped out dev files
2011/08/31 updated 4.81 -> 4.96 and recompiled on tc-4
2012/04/29 updated 4.96 -> 4.99
2012/07/21 updated 4.99 -> 4.101, added in *conf to (re)enable a2dp, etc
2013/07/17 updated audio.conf for pulseaudio-4
Current: 2015/05/15 patched to enable network access point