Bluetooth blues solved (sort of)

Willem Ferguson willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za
Wed Oct 28 09:42:53 PDT 2015


On 23/10/2015 16:04, Rick Walsh wrote:
>
>
> I have tested my petrel 2 with two laptop  onboard Bluetooth 
> controllers and 3 usb Bluetooth controllers.
>
> From memory, with one of the usb controllers, I needed to enter the 
> PIN 0000 (using bluetoothctl or KDE's bluetooth ui) to pair.  With the 
> others I didn't need to enter a PIN.  I guess the PIN 0000 was assumed 
> when pairing with the other controllers.
>
> R
>
The problem I encountered is OS-specific to the Ubuntu bluetooth 
interface. After loading external software and not using the built-in 
Ubuntu tool, I am able to download the Petrel reliably. Thank you very 
much for your time with this.
Kind regards,
willem



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