[arm-allstar] bluetooth on HamVoIP

Patrick Perdue borrisinabox at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 13:53:35 EST 2022


Greetings:

I'm attempting to set up bluetooth on a HamVoIP install, with the 
eventual goal of TTY access from Bluetooth via a laptop or Android phone 
to the node in the field when WiFi/Ethernet doesn't exist, among other 
things.

I have installed bluez and bluez-utils. However, the bluetooth device 
doesn't appear to exist.

[root at radioless ~]# bluetoothctl
[bluetooth]# agent on
Agent registered
[bluetooth]# show
No default controller available
[bluetooth]#


I assume it's been disabled somewhere, but I can't figure out where.

lspci shows the following:

[root at radioless ~]# lspci
00:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Corporation Device 2711 (rev 20)
01:00.0 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VL805 USB 3.0 Host 
Controller (rev 01)
[root at radioless ~]#


I looked in /boot/config.txt, and there isn't much there. Don't know 
what the defaults are, other than audio output from the Pi is disabled. 
There is an overlay that disables both WiFi and Bluetooth, but I'm not 
sure how to enable Bluetooth specifically. Maybe I'm missing a library 
or something.

I am not concerned about programming radios on this image, so I'm not 
worried about uart/serial port conflicts and the like.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks and 73

N2DYI



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