I think I figured it out. Instead of: sudo hciconfig hci0 up sudo hcitool -i hci0 cmd 0x08 0x0008 1e 02 01 1a 1a ff 4c 00 02 15 e2 c5 6d b5 df fb 48 d2 b0 60 d0 f5 a7 10 96 e0 00 00 00 00 c5 00 00 00 00 00 … Read more
This turned out to be a problem with the Debian Squeeze bluez default configuration. If anyone else hits this problem, disable the pnat plugin by editing /etc/bluetooth/main.conf: DisablePlugins = pnat Then restart bluetoothd. $ sudo invoke-rc.d bluetooth restart No changes were required to the PyBluez code.
With your Bluetooth dongle plugged in, running the following command will tell you the device name and give its state: $ hciconfig The output should look something like this: hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB BD Address: 00:01:02:aa:bb:cc ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1 DOWN RX bytes:1000 acl:0 sco:0 events:47 errors:0 TX bytes:1072 acl:0 sco:0 commands:47 … Read more
So this is now handled with the new bluetoothctl tool. A gatt table can be set up using this tool as follows:- #bluetoothctl [bluetoothctl] menu gatt [bluetoothctl] register-service 0xFFFF # (Choose yes when asked if primary service) [bluetoothctl] register-characteristic 0xAAAA read # (Select a value of 1 when prompted) [bluetoothctl] register-characteristic 0xBBBB read,write # (Select … Read more
Try this… Run gatttool -b <MAC Address> –interactive like you did before. You’ll get a prompt and then you type connect. You should see a CON in the prompt indicating that you’ve connected to the device. Then type char-read-uuid 2902. You should get a list of all CCC (Client Characteristic Configuration) attributes on the device. … Read more