Perdix / Perdix AI info from Shearwater

[Dirk Hohndel]

> On Apr 10, 2017, at 9:37 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:23 AM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> After a couple of hiccups (my main contact at Shearwater had left them, but now is back) I was able to connect with Shearwater regarding BTLE support.
>> It seems that the newer Perdix are all BTLE only (not just the AI). So this is becoming more pressing...
> 
> well, I'm in Maui right now, to make up for the fact that I won't be
> in Maui during the regular family vacaton this year.
> 
> And te Perdix AI model looks *exactly* like the EON Steel model,
> except with a different protocol, of course.
> 
> Exactly the same GATT write to one descriptor, and reads with notify
> events on another descriptor. (I guess they care called
> "characteristics" in BLE).

So we /should/ be able to add these reasonably easily.
If only one of us had the time to actually look into it.
Argl.

> Anyway, in a week Ill have new dives and motivation to figure it all
> out, and by then hopefully Nick and Marcel will have figured out the
> pairing issues on Linux too.
> 
> The Perdix may not have the pairing issues. That may be a EON Steel
> quirk due to the way it tells the world that it isn't discoverable,
> and then Bluez takes that a bit _too_ seriously.

I can at least look into the pairing problems... well, except I right now
have no laptop that runs Linux on hardware, I just realize. Oops. It's
all Macs. I may need to fix that.

/D