Bluetooth Beacon On TC 8.x

[onelife]

Hi all,

I'm tying to get a bluetooth beacon up and running on TC 8. I see on Jessie it's basically all pre-installed with the package "bluez".

I see in the tce-ab there is :

1. bluez-hcidump-doc.tcz
2. bluez-hcidump.tcz

But no bluez.tcz

Any ideas how I get this TCZ and or enable the commands such as :

sudo hciconfig hci0 up

sudo hciconfig hci0 leadv 3

Using the Eddystone method on Jessie like I say is no issue and all seems to be working, but on TC I have no idea how to enable the bluetooth module or other parts I need?

Anyone else tried this before?

Hope to get some ideas

Thank you!

[Juanito]

You would need to compile bluez from source.

I was thinking of looking at it eventually...

[onelife]

Aha, great - Glad I'm not the only.

Would you have any suggestions on how I do that.

Are there more dependencies I need before being able to compile?

I've never successfully managed to "build" as such so keen to make sure I have what I need before trying

Thank you so much for your fast reply

Dean

[Juanito]

You could look at this:

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/7.x/x86_64/tcz/src/bluez/compile_bluez

..but use "-march=armv6zk -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -mfpu=vfp" instead of "-mtune=generic"

[Juanito]

I managed to get the RPi3 built-in bluetooth working 

It's going to take a little time to get things sorted out, but once done I'll post the bluetooth firmware, kernel modules  and bluez in the piCore 8.x armv7 repo.

[Juanito]

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