Shearwater Petrel Bluetooth connection on Fedora 20

[Anton Lundin]

On 13 April, 2015 - Rodrigo Severo wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Rick Walsh <rickmwalsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I made a quick attempt this morning, but ran out of time and needed to
> > go to work.  I'm not familiar with rfcomm or Bluetooth on Linux.
> > Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the correct command?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I managed to get stable connections using the rfcomm "connect" command.
> 
> Here is the script I use to connect the Petrel to my computer just
> before using downloading data on Subsurface:
> 
...
> before using downloading data on Subsurface:
> 
> # Antigo Petrel com porta externa (vendido para o Cristofer)
> #rfcomm connect /dev/rfcomm0 00:13:43:04:F2:F1
> 
> # Novo Petrel controlador do O2Ptima
> rfcomm connect /dev/rfcomm0 00:13:43:08:96:48
> 
> # Novo Petrel sem porta externa
> #rfcomm connect /dev/rfcomm0 00:13:43:07:90:CD
> 
...

All of these uses the build in bluetooth dongle, hci0 by default.

Pass a -i hci1 to use your second blueooth dongle, eg:

rfcomm -i hci1 connect /dev/rfcomm0 aa:bb:cc:...



I like to use the connect keyword, because for me it might take 10-15
seconds sometime to connect a rfcomm channel. If you would have just use
bind and then open on the dev, it might behave badly and time out. This
might be your case.


//Anton


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