Which USB Bluetooth adapters will work with Puppy?
Which USB Bluetooth adapters will work with Puppy?
I want to get one of those cheap usb bluetooth adapters so I can use my new cheap bluetooth headphones with my desktop.
There seem to be a large variety on ebay for $5 or so. Is it like wireless cards where some are supported by the kernel and work out of the box, some need effort to make work and some will never work? Or do they pretty much all work?
Any way to tell which ones work out of the box without actually trying them out?
edit: I saw this and will search for them on ebay, but they don't seem to be the $5 ones. https://wiki.ubuntu.comHardwareSupportC ... sbAdapters
There seem to be a large variety on ebay for $5 or so. Is it like wireless cards where some are supported by the kernel and work out of the box, some need effort to make work and some will never work? Or do they pretty much all work?
Any way to tell which ones work out of the box without actually trying them out?
edit: I saw this and will search for them on ebay, but they don't seem to be the $5 ones. https://wiki.ubuntu.comHardwareSupportC ... sbAdapters
Okay, for $5 I am just going to take my chances. I got the cheapest one on ebay shipping from the U.S. that has "Linux" in the description.
I'll report back if it works.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mini-USB-Bluet ... 3372416634
I'll report back if it works.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mini-USB-Bluet ... 3372416634
I've got it and it works (Debian Dog Stretch) in the sense that I can pair my head phones and my android phone with it. I can send files to my android phone (which I can also do over wifi). To do this, all I had to do was install "bluetooth" and "blueman" and their dependencies and reboot.
The problem is that in order to use the headphones (which was the main thing), you need to have pulse audio. There is some software that looks kind of like apulse for bluetooth that needs to be compiled. See https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa I will try to use this, but it might be the middle of next week before I can do it.
These 2 links seem at least somewhat relevant
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/123 ... pulseaudio
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... -bt-device
This is it:
Now my headset connects without error.
I am closer, but not quite there yet.
The problem is that in order to use the headphones (which was the main thing), you need to have pulse audio. There is some software that looks kind of like apulse for bluetooth that needs to be compiled. See https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa I will try to use this, but it might be the middle of next week before I can do it.
These 2 links seem at least somewhat relevant
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/123 ... pulseaudio
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... -bt-device
This is it:
edit: I found the application "bluealsa" on the Raspberry Pi website almost by mistake. https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ ... /bluealsa/Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Now my headset connects without error.
I am closer, but not quite there yet.
Hi all,
Has anyone gotten bluetooth (specifically, that is a Broadcom-based usb dongle---which the vast majority on Amazon are) to work in any puppy? Especially Phil's Xenial/Bionic ?
If so, can you specify what you did exactly? Neither Mistfire's excellent p3bluetooth or Rsrcn51's bluetooth apps help much when it the USB bluetooth dongle is based on these sh#tty Broadcom chips.
This is one case, imho, where it should be Intel all the way.
My old, trusty Intel USB bluetooth dongle in my Fatdog laptop fires right up, but this other USB bluetooth dongle based on Broadcom is just crap---across all Phil's/Peebee's/Mistfire/Barrys/etc creations.
Frustrating.....
Has anyone gotten bluetooth (specifically, that is a Broadcom-based usb dongle---which the vast majority on Amazon are) to work in any puppy? Especially Phil's Xenial/Bionic ?
If so, can you specify what you did exactly? Neither Mistfire's excellent p3bluetooth or Rsrcn51's bluetooth apps help much when it the USB bluetooth dongle is based on these sh#tty Broadcom chips.
This is one case, imho, where it should be Intel all the way.
My old, trusty Intel USB bluetooth dongle in my Fatdog laptop fires right up, but this other USB bluetooth dongle based on Broadcom is just crap---across all Phil's/Peebee's/Mistfire/Barrys/etc creations.
Frustrating.....
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I have wasted more time than I will admit to trying to get my Broadcom BT device working consistently.belham2 wrote:Hi all,
Has anyone gotten bluetooth (specifically, that is a Broadcom-based usb dongle---which the vast majority on Amazon are) to work in any puppy? Especially Phil's Xenial/Bionic ?
If so, can you specify what you did exactly? Neither Mistfire's excellent p3bluetooth or Rsrcn51's bluetooth apps help much when it the USB bluetooth dongle is based on these sh#tty Broadcom chips.
This is one case, imho, where it should be Intel all the way.
My old, trusty Intel USB bluetooth dongle in my Fatdog laptop fires right up, but this other USB bluetooth dongle based on Broadcom is just crap---across all Phil's/Peebee's/Mistfire/Barrys/etc creations.
Frustrating.....
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Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0a5c:5801 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications Processor with fingerprint swipe sensor
Just adding this for info purposes, not looking for the magic to make it useable.
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Can I assume this dongle works without difficulty in bionicpup?dancytron wrote:I've got it and it works (Debian Dog Stretch) in the sense that I can pair my head phones and my android phone with it. I can send files to my android phone (which I can also do over wifi). To do this, all I had to do was install "bluetooth" and "blueman" and their dependencies and reboot.
The problem is that in order to use the headphones (which was the main thing), you need to have pulse audio. There is some software that looks kind of like apulse for bluetooth that needs to be compiled. See https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa I will try to use this, but it might be the middle of next week before I can do it.
These 2 links seem at least somewhat relevant
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/123 ... pulseaudio
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... -bt-device
This is it:
edit: I found the application "bluealsa" on the Raspberry Pi website almost by mistake. https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ ... /bluealsa/Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Now my headset connects without error.
I am closer, but not quite there yet.
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I tried your program in stretch. I gave up. Perhaps my bluetooth adapter is just junk (it was only $4 online from China).rcrsn51 wrote:No replies?
People bitch constantly about bluetooth, but won't try something that actually works.
I appreciate the effort, but it's not something I actually need and I don't get to test as much stuff as I'd like as it is, so I'm not planning on spending anymore time on it... . . . .
Last edited by dancytron on Wed 13 May 2020, 01:48, edited 2 times in total.
It's not just about the adapter - it also depends on the target BT device.
You mentioned somewhere that you are trying to connect a BT headset. In order for a headset to work with this system, it must recognize the A2DP audio profile. Many headsets only use the hands-free phone protocol, so bluealsa won't connect.
But without details about what goes wrong, it's hard to say. I can't find a test report from you in the Stretch threads.
You mentioned somewhere that you are trying to connect a BT headset. In order for a headset to work with this system, it must recognize the A2DP audio profile. Many headsets only use the hands-free phone protocol, so bluealsa won't connect.
But without details about what goes wrong, it's hard to say. I can't find a test report from you in the Stretch threads.