I would like to be able to use a Bluetooth Dongle - not the HC06 module, but a simple USB dongle (the pretty generic kind, or even poundshop type) as a serial login console/tty.

I have already tried the following: hcitools and bluez are installed. lsusb shows the device, hcitools dev shows it, and hcitools scan shows other devices.

I've used bluez-simple-agent to pair it with a laptop, and then attempted to use rfcomm bind to a channel, getting a /dev/rfcomm1 device.

I have attempted to advertise the channel with sdptool add --channel=1 SP.

I have used rfcomm watch /dev/rfcomm1 1 echo hello to test it (as well as a more complicated variation with getty), and cannot get the hello. It is listening, and with it there, the laptop (windows) does think there is a serial device, but I cannot then use putty to connect to a comm port created, and get a thing out of it.

This sounds possible - has somebody done this, and could they point me at the right changes to make?

This is similar - but as a serial client Bluetooth as ttyUSB*.

I would like to be able to use a Bluetooth Dongle - not the HC06 module, but a simple USB dongle (the pretty generic kind, or even poundshop type) as a serial login console/tty.

I have already tried the following: hcitools and bluez are installed. lsusb shows the device, hcitools dev shows it, and hcitools scan shows other devices.

I've used bluez-simple-agent to pair it with a laptop, and then attempted to use rfcomm bind to a channel, getting a /dev/rfcomm1 device.

I have attempted to advertise the channel with sdptool add --channel=1 SP.

I have used rfcomm watch /dev/rfcomm1 1 echo hello to test it (as well as a more complicated variation with getty), and cannot get the hello. It is listening, and with it there, the laptop (windows) does think there is a serial device, but I cannot then use putty to connect to a comm port created, and get a thing out of it.

This sounds possible - has somebody done this, and could they point me at the right changes to make?

This is similar - but as a serial client Bluetooth as ttyUSB*.