Bluetooth setup?

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Has anyone successfully get bluetooth to work? I am attempting to setup a diNovo mini but without much luck. 

 

When i plug in various bluetooth dongles, they appear to be recognized (based on dmesg via ssh), but show device timeouts - and no apparent way to pair.

 

Judging from the openElec threads on bluetooth it seems there is the need to install some bluetooth add-on tools but before i go down the path of editing the image (and needing to do it for each new release) i wanted to see what other have done.

 

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This is on our TODO list. Feel free to solve this and send us instructions how to integrate this. (It seems there is just one tool missing, but no one has looked at this in depth until now)

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You should check this out: http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Bluez-tools_how-to


I will be looking in to this also.

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@a_wein: OK, i'll have a crack at it and if i make progress will write it up (wont get to it for a couple of days unfortunately). 

@Jason: Thanks for the link, that had been what i was looking into, so at least i know i am looking in the right direction.

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It seems the OpenELEC guys are working on this too and Bluetooth will get GUI support very soon. (It seems the next OpenELEC version 3.1 will have it and we will pull this from upstream afterwards)

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Any News on this Topic ? Has Anyone get it to work - it would love to use Bluetooth for A2DP Streaming to Rasplex.

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I contemplated on posting here or OpenELEC, I may post there too.

I have not had much luck with trying to get Bluetooth working. From what I understand these are the steps:

            Edit the /etc/bluetooth/main.conf

                        Comment out the line “DisablePlugins = input” with #

            Install an add-on called bluez-tools

            Configure your Bluetooth device.

I have the main.conf file changed and the bluez-tools add-on installed via the Confluence skin but I am not getting the commands within the CLI.

Is there a way to install the add-ons via the CLI?

I have errors in plexhometheater.log that I believe are the add-on:

18:06:47 T:2671752288   ERROR: ## OpenELEC Addon ## bluetooth::get_adapter ## ERROR: (DBusException('Method "GetManagedObjects" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager" doesn\'t exist
',))
18:06:47 T:2671752288  NOTICE: Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "./resources/lib/modules/bluetooth.py", line 196, in get_adapter
                                              File "./dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in __call__
                                              File "./dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
                                              File "./dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
                                            DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetManagedObjects" with signature "" on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager" doesn't exist 

Anyone else able to get by this or any luck running the bt-adapter command?

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