hcitool scan on my RPi reveals the other local Bluetooth devices, but they do not recognise the RPi Bluetooth. Can anyone tell me the command to make Bluetooth discoverable on the RPi, please.
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1Can you post which Bluetooth adapter you are using?– HeatfanJohnMay 1, 2013 at 13:23
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I have answered a similar question here: Making Raspberry Pi Bluetooth slave
I will also paste the same answer below for reference.
You need to activate the ISCAN service to achieve this:
sudo hciconfig hci0 piscan
after this, when you execute sudo hciconfig -a, you should see this line:
UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
After that, just run bluez-simple-agent and when the Agent is started (don't kill the process), use the other device to scan and find the RPI.
Start the pairing and you will get the PIN prompt in the console. When done, the devices are paired. You can stop the bluez-simple-agent with CTRL+C.
If you want to add the device as trusted, execute:
bluez-test-device trusted XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX yes
where XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX is the bluetooth device address.
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How to solve error
E: Unable to locate package bluez-test-devicewhen trying tosudo apt-get install bluez-test-device? Jan 27, 2016 at 20:56 -
It should be installed by simply:
sudo apt-get install bluez. No need to specify thebluez-test-device.– bosnjakJan 28, 2016 at 1:12
I turned it on by running.
sudo bluez-test-adapter discoverable on
