Shearwater Petrel Bluetooth connection on Fedora 20

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sun Apr 12 08:23:10 PDT 2015


> On Apr 12, 2015, at 7:58 AM, Anton Lundin <glance at acc.umu.se> wrote:
> 
> On 12 April, 2015 - Rick Walsh wrote:
> 
> My tips are:
> 
> Use rfcomm connect instead of bind. Watch the command and make sure the
> rfcomm channel have connected before starting any communication over it.
> 
> Make sure you gave rfcomm -i [hciX|bdaddr] the right device as your
> "source". Eg. by default it uses hci0 on my machine, the built in
> problematic device.

Also make sure that you don’t have another program grab the port before
Subsurface tries to open it. ModemManager is notorious for doing that…

/D


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