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BlueZ with Raspberry Pi 3

I'm working on a project that involves interfacing a PC (windows based) with a raspberry pi 3 using Bluetooth with c++. I've done some research and found that the library BlueZ is one of the best ...
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Bluetooth on a read-only system

Oi, I am trying to say hello here... why are you deleting my "Hello all"... Anyway, as the title suggests, I need some help with bluetooth on a read only system. After some playing around and ...
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Bluetooth low energy gatt services not found on Android

I'm running one of the Bluez examples on a raspberry pi 3 B+. Output from using bluetoothctl then running show shows that some GATT services are available: Name: raspberrypi Alias: raspberrypi Class:...
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How to programmatically check bluetooth speaker is connected to rpi3?

I am trying to detect if my bluetooth speaker is connected to my rpi3 with my python code, executing this command status = subprocess.call('ls /dev/input/event0 2>/dev/null', shell=True) if the ...
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Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.NotAvailable - Error

I am trying to connect a HC-05 Bluetooth Module (connected to Arduino Uno) to my Raspberry Pi 3 in the hopes of achieving bluetooth communication between the two to send data from the Uno to the Pi. ...
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Program to get and display Bluetooth metadata

So I set up my Raspberry Pi 3 as a Bluetooth receiver and it is able to get sound from my phone. Is there any program (preferably graphical) that can display the track info and artist info from AVRCP ...
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prevent GUI notification for Bluetooth Pairing

Currently, I am trying to control Bluetooth (pairing - connecting - removing ...) with my python code (by accessing to bluetoothctl through pexpect). It actually works fine but I have a problem with ...
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Using Bluez, how to select what HCI interface to use?

I have an external USB Bluetooth 4.0 interface and the built in BT interface. I would like to configure Bluez to use the external Bluetooth 4.0 interface only (hci1). I did systemctl stop hciuart ...
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Bluetoothctl on Raspberry Pi 1 - Troubleshooting

I have been trying to make the Raspberry Pi work regarding Bluetooth using the command bluetoothctl. I've been using Wheezybefore and now I started using Jessie, because I couldn't find an image for ...
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How do I fix bluetooth not working?

I own the raspberry pi 3. I've had it since like mid-late August. I was so happy about bluetooth. After a while, it stopped working. I checked the circuit board and the built in bluetooth board for ...
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Automatically (re)connect paired Bluetooth devices

I have got a RPi 3 loaded with Raspbian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie) and I use pyserial to send data over Bluetooth to an Android application. Pairing the Pi with the Android device works fine. For my ...
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Discoverable Bluetooth on boot with Jessie

I'm pretty new to raspberry pis, I got my first one last week. I am trying to setup up a "bluetooth server". It collects data from a serial connection and then sends it, via bluetooth, to an android ...
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How to power down bluetooth on startup, but leave it accessible

The majority of the time, I won't want to use the bluetooth on my pi, I've found how to do it with either the GUI or using bluetoothctrl at the command line, but I really don't see a way to do it ...
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Automatically accept bluetooth pairings

I am running a headless Raspberry PI 3, and I want it to automatically accept pairings from any device. I saw this answer in an identical question: Automatically accepting Bluetooth connections on a ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 Bluetooth "No default controller available"

I'm running Jessie, and an apt-get update/upgrade has no work to do. The kernel is at version 4.4.11-v7+ #891. An hcitool scan says there's no device available. bluetoothctl says No default controller ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 Connecting to Bluetooth audio device on Raspbian Jessie

I am trying to connect to a Bluetooth audio device on fully updated Raspberry Pi 3 running Jessie using the following: pi@raspberrypi:~ $ bluetoothctl [bluetooth]# power on Changing power on ...
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Setup Raspberry Pi 3 as bluetooth speaker

I am looking for a way to configure the Raspberry Pi 3 as bluetooth speaker using Raspbian Jessie. What I mean by as bluetooth speaker is use it to receive audio stream via bluetooth using A2DP and ...
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Streaming Audio From Raspberry Pi 2 to Bluetooth Speaker

I want to use bluetooth to stream any audio being played on my raspberry pi to my bluetooth speaker. I've installed bluez and all the other bluetooth packages. I can see and connect to my speaker, but ...
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