Comments on: BlueDevil, the new KDE bluetooth stack is here

By: Alien Pastures » KDE 4.7.4 – last of the 4.7 series

Alien Pastures » KDE 4.7.4 – last of the 4.7 series — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:41:15 +0000

[...] the KDE core set. They are new, compared to Slackware’s own version of KDE. I already added bluedevil to my 4.6.5 package-set. Bluedevil is the new KDE bluetooth stack with a nice GUI, based on the [...]

By: Alien Pastures » KDE updated to 4.7.3

Alien Pastures » KDE updated to 4.7.3 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:09:45 +0000

By: Alien Pastures » Another maintenance release: KDE 4.7.2

Alien Pastures » Another maintenance release: KDE 4.7.2 — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:46:28 +0000

[...] three useful new applications, compared to Slackware’s own version of KDE: I already added bluedevil to my 4.6.5 package-set. Bluedevil is the new KDE bluetooth stack with a nice GUI, based on the [...]

By: Alien Pastures » KDE 4.7.1 packages for Slackware

Alien Pastures » KDE 4.7.1 packages for Slackware — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:22:30 +0000

By: Alien Pastures » Modular KDE 4.7.0 arrives for Slackware

Alien Pastures » Modular KDE 4.7.0 arrives for Slackware — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:01:17 +0000

[...] as “KDE extragear”, compared to Slackware’s own version of KDE: I already added bluedevil to my 4.6.5 package-set. Bluedevil is the new KDE bluetooth stack with a nice GUI, based on the [...]

By: Alien Pastures » KDE Software Compilation 4.6.5

Alien Pastures » KDE Software Compilation 4.6.5 — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:12:05 +0000

[...] bluedevil was added – not a dependency as such, but rather additional functionality for your KDE [...]

By: Alien Pastures » KDE Software Compilation 4.6.4

Alien Pastures » KDE Software Compilation 4.6.4 — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:52:01 +0000

[...] bluedevil of course – the new KDE bluetooth stack which is based on the BlueZ libraries already present [...]

By: Andy Lavarre

Andy Lavarre — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:39:50 +0000

@afiestas Done, thanks.

By: Running KDE 4.6.3 on Slackware

Running KDE 4.6.3 on Slackware — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:02:58 +0000

[...] current series distributed by Eric (4.6.3) added the bluedevil bluetooth stack which works nicely. Make sure to read Eric’s notes about the release as they have much more [...]

By: afiestas

afiestas — Sun, 29 May 2011 15:52:35 +0000

Hi, sorry for the late response,

can you please report a bug at bugs.kde.org so we can track the problem? a blog is not the best place to put this :p

By: Andy Lavarre

Andy Lavarre — Sun, 22 May 2011 00:09:50 +0000

Alex, hola!

I recently got a new machine and am trying to get bluedevil working, but have not yet succeeded. Below are all the details.

The bottom line is that the software installs, the menus function, the system recognizes the BT adapter, but the machine cannot find other devices, and other devices cannot find this computer.

+ The machine is HP TouchSmart tm2t-2200
+ The OS is openSUSE 11.4
+ The OS-installed version of BlueDevil was 1.02 (which didn’t work) but I have now added repositories and used YaST to install version 1.04-3.1.
+ This same Bluedevil version works just fine on my old machine with the same operating system, so it must be the difference in hardware?
+ YaST reports the hardware as
Vendor: usb 0x148f “Ralink Technology, Corp.”

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance, kind regards.

Saludos, Andy Lavarre
===================== Details =====================
YaST reports:
38: USB 00.0: 11500 Bluetooth Device
[Created at usb.122]
Unique ID: JPTW.tGttqvOhWG9
Parent ID: FKGF.0j9+vWlqL56
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0
SysFS BusID: 2-1.3:1.0
Hardware Class: bluetooth
Model: “Ralink Bluetooth Device”
Hotplug: USB
Vendor: usb 0x148f “Ralink Technology, Corp.”
Device: usb 0×1000
Revision: “52.76″
Driver: “btusb”
Driver Modules: “btusb”
Speed: 12 Mbps
Module Alias: “usb:v148Fp1000d5276dcE0dsc01dp01icE0isc01ip01″
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: btusb is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe btusb”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #36 (Hub)

Bluedevil discovers it at MAC CC:52:AF:50:0D:FE

We have it activated with modprobe btusb
But configuring it fails with bluedevil.

Installing the operating system on the new machine resulted in bluedevil 1.02-3.8.1 being installed. This version does not work.
The older machine has bluedevil 1.04-3.1 installed. That version DOES work on that machine.

I uninstalled bluedevil and searched around for repositories for the newer version. I was not able to install 1.04 because of dependency issues, but after rebooting and runnning yast2 sw_single I now found 1.04-3.1 available so I installed it. I also compared all the other bluedevil and bluez files between the two machines. I have the same files on both. But bluedevil does not work on the new machine although it does work on the old machine.

After all of this and a fresh reboot dmesg reports:

[ 62.418592] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.15
[ 62.418596] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 62.437051] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 62.437054] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 62.542333] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
[ 62.542336] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 63.295452] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 63.295458] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 63.295460] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11

By: Entrevistas: Alex Fiestas (I) : KDE Blog

Entrevistas: Alex Fiestas (I) : KDE Blog — Sun, 01 May 2011 22:03:32 +0000

[...] en 3 proyectos: Kamoso: Una aplicación para divertirse tomando fotos y videos desde una webcam. BlueDevil: Integración de la tecnología Bluetooth en KDE. Solid: Una subcomunidad dentro de KDE, enfocada [...]

By: afiestas

afiestas — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:32:41 +0000

What exactly do you mean? we already support headsets and micros (build in those headsets)

By: Deus mortus est

Deus mortus est — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:02:19 +0000

There are planes for implement suport of audio devices (auriculars, micros, etc) like Blueman?

Thankyou

By: afiestas

afiestas — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:10:58 +0000

I’m quite sure that’s not possible with BlueZ (the current Linux Bluetooth Stack) :/

By: André Vande Vonder

André Vande Vonder — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:05:05 +0000

Hello,

I just finish to install KDE 4.6.2 under my Gentoo. BlueDevil are very very splendid but …..
Where I will find information about ‘private’ device.
I have some user’s on my system and thus all of them see a device of each other users !!
For security and private usage (by user) where I set this ?

Thanks

By: afiestas

afiestas — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:31:18 +0000

Please, fill a bug at bugs.kde.org so we can track the problem down.

Thanks.

By: MpMp

MpMp — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:57:58 +0000

BlueDevil not found my bluetooth adapter: Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

By: leslie88

leslie88 — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:40:44 +0000

Hi!
vlad@debian6kde:~$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 13fe:1e00 Kingston Technology Company Inc.
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0457:0151 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. Super Flash 1GB / GXT 64MB Flash Drive
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03eb:0902 Atmel Corp. 4-Port Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0458:705e KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

When I try “Configure adapters” :

“No adapters found. Please connect one.”

Debian 6.0 KDE

By: afiestas

afiestas — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:43:00 +0000

Please, can you fill bugs/wishes at http://bugs.kde.org ? that is the only way we can keep track of them.