[arm-allstar] bluetooth on HamVoIP

[David McGough]

The bluetooth hardware is disabled by default. Re-enable in the 
/boot/config.txt file.  Comment out the entry: dtoverlay=disable-bt, like:

#dtoverlay=disable-bt


...And, restart.

73, David K4FXC



On Tue, 6 Dec 2022, "Patrick Perdue via ARM-allstar" wrote:

> 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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