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      • Pulsar33P Offline
        Pulsar33
        last edited by Pulsar33

        Hello,
        I don't want to spam "The" Bluetooth Thread in which you speak mainly about phone calls and music items. My problem may be specific, or not, I don't know. At this time, my E5 runs Ubuntu Touch OTA15. However, I follow you and try to be active. Moreover, I installed UBPorts OTA3 on my daugther's E5 and FP2, and I will soon help her to switch to OTA4.

        Well, I have a clean Bluetooth GPS which works fine with my desktop running MINT18.3, but not with my BQ E5. This GPS provides a serial port and sends NMEA frames at 2400 bauds, which is a standard usage. Once connected, you've only to redirect what's is coming on the serial port to a file to capture your track and more.
        0_1535378179412_BT-GPS.jpg

        This GPS is seen by my BQ E5, connects for some seconds then disconnects, despite the "automatic connect" choice. If I "forget this device" and start a new connexion, the pin code is asked and granted, and connexion on then off follows. So I made this test using Terminal.

        1° Desktop MINT18.3 :
        pulsar33@Minerve ~ $ hcitool scan
        Scanning ...
        [GPS ADDRESS] BT-GPS-3197E9
        pulsar33@Minerve ~ $ sudo rfcomm bind 0 [GPS ADDRESS] 1
        [sudo] Mot de passe de pulsar33 :
        pulsar33@Minerve ~ $ ls /dev/rf*
        /dev/rfcomm0 /dev/rfkill
        pulsar33@Minerve ~ $ sudo cat /dev/rfcomm0
        $GPGGA,075521.000,...
        $GPGSA,A,3,26,29,...
        $GPRMC,075521.000,A,...
        ^C
        This works fine and can be redirected to a file.

        2° BQ E5 OTA15 :
        phablet@ubuntu-phablet ~ $ hcitool scan
        Scanning ...
        [GPS ADDRESS] BT-GPS-3197E9
        phablet@ubuntu-phablet ~ $ sudo rfcomm bind 0 [GPS ADDRESS] 1
        RFCOMM TTY support not available
        phablet@ubuntu-phablet ~ $ ls /dev/rf*
        /dev/rfkill
        Does someone know why "TTY support" is not available for Touch ?
        Is it the same for UBports OTA3 and OTA4 ?

        Best regards
        Pulsar33

        Aquaris BQ E5 HD UBports OTA-25 (currently testing features)
        Aquaris BQ E5 HD Ubuntu Edition Canonical OTA-15 (last Canonical version, daily use)
        Raspberry Pi 4 B - 4 GB & 8 GB with various OS and Desktops (UBports not OK)

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        • Pulsar33P Offline
          Pulsar33
          last edited by

          Nobody knows ?
          Good evening
          Pulsar33

          Aquaris BQ E5 HD UBports OTA-25 (currently testing features)
          Aquaris BQ E5 HD Ubuntu Edition Canonical OTA-15 (last Canonical version, daily use)
          Raspberry Pi 4 B - 4 GB & 8 GB with various OS and Desktops (UBports not OK)

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          • Pulsar33P Offline
            Pulsar33
            last edited by

            Up
            Would be happy to receive some words here ...
            Pulsar33

            Aquaris BQ E5 HD UBports OTA-25 (currently testing features)
            Aquaris BQ E5 HD Ubuntu Edition Canonical OTA-15 (last Canonical version, daily use)
            Raspberry Pi 4 B - 4 GB & 8 GB with various OS and Desktops (UBports not OK)

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            • dobeyD Offline
              dobey
              last edited by

              Hi,

              I am not sure why TTY support would be reported as unavailable. However, I'm also not sure if the location service has support for using an external GPS device yet either, so even if you were able to connect to the device, it may not be useful with the phone at the moment.

              I would suggest to please open an issue on the github for this, if you have not already.

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              • Pulsar33P Offline
                Pulsar33
                last edited by

                Many thanks for answering me !

                I don't want to use the location service with an external GPS (the internal GPS works for that). I just want to easily capture my track and other parameters in a file (and then make statistics or import the track to Openrunner for example). That works with a laptop (or desktop) running MINT without problem (and needs no specific application except Terminal) as said above.

                I will follow your suggestion but being currently with Ubuntu Touch OTA-15, I tried to know before that if the problem is the same for UBports OTA-3 and OTA-4 in order to give a usefull information.

                Does the exact message "RFCOMM TTY support not available" make sense for developpers ?
                When speaking of Bluetooth today, people think to car connexion, voice calls, music playing, but before all that, the first function offered by bluetooth was the RS232 replacement ... Have we lost it ?

                Best regards
                Pulsar33

                Aquaris BQ E5 HD UBports OTA-25 (currently testing features)
                Aquaris BQ E5 HD Ubuntu Edition Canonical OTA-15 (last Canonical version, daily use)
                Raspberry Pi 4 B - 4 GB & 8 GB with various OS and Desktops (UBports not OK)

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                • dobeyD Offline
                  dobey
                  last edited by

                  The rfcomm command is not the only way to create a serial Bluetooth connection. It may be that it simply does not work that way on the devices which require the Android layer underneath and hybris, in order to work.

                  It's almost certainly possible to create such a connection, but UT is not a standard traditional PC Linux distribution, and many things do not work the same way, due to the hardware and Android/hybris, or just because of security.

                  RE: capture of data from this device, are you saying you would carry it with you, but not the phone, and then later sync the data to the phone to import into an app? It may just be that an app needs to be created to do what you want and initiate the bluetooth pairing to that device. For example, I'm pretty sure the Rockwork app for Pebble watches uses a serial connection for communications.

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                  • Pulsar33P Offline
                    Pulsar33 @dobey
                    last edited by Pulsar33

                    @dobey said in "The other" Bluetooth Thread:

                    The rfcomm command is not the only way to create a serial Bluetooth connection.

                    RE: capture of data from this device, are you saying you would carry it with you, but not the phone, and then later sync the data to the phone to import into an app?

                    No : the GPS would be fixed on my bike and the phone would be near it, where I found it usefull, capturing in real time. This GPS doesn't save data, it just transmits and forgets it.

                    The important point here is to use basic serial communication (this GPS being an example but not the only one) without the need to install an application. If you have other OS tools suggestions than rfcomm being able to open a bluetooth serial line, I would be glad to give a try ...

                    Once more, many thanks for your answers.
                    Pulsar33

                    Aquaris BQ E5 HD UBports OTA-25 (currently testing features)
                    Aquaris BQ E5 HD Ubuntu Edition Canonical OTA-15 (last Canonical version, daily use)
                    Raspberry Pi 4 B - 4 GB & 8 GB with various OS and Desktops (UBports not OK)

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                    • jezekJ Offline
                      jezek
                      last edited by

                      Just a guess...
                      How about trying, some rfcomm alternative, like bluez-tools? Or am I wrong?

                      jEzEk

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                      • Pulsar33P Offline
                        Pulsar33 @jezek
                        last edited by

                        @jezek : Thank you for the suggestion
                        However, this confirm the problem :
                        [bluetooth]# info [GPS ADDRESS]
                        Device [GPS ADDRESS]
                        Name: BT-GPS-3197E9
                        Alias: BT-GPS-3197E9
                        Class: 0x001f00
                        Paired: yes
                        Trusted: yes
                        Blocked: no
                        Connected: no
                        LegacyPairing: yes
                        UUID: Serial Port (00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
                        RSSI: -45

                        [bluetooth]# connect [GPS ADDRESS]
                        Attempting to connect to [GPS ADDRESS]
                        [CHG] Device [GPS ADDRESS] Connected: yes
                        Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.NotAvailable
                        [CHG] Device [GPS ADDRESS] Connected: no

                        This is the same result as when I do a connexion through the Touch UI
                        The error NotAvailable sounds like the rfcomm answer ...
                        Have a good day
                        Pulsar33

                        Aquaris BQ E5 HD UBports OTA-25 (currently testing features)
                        Aquaris BQ E5 HD Ubuntu Edition Canonical OTA-15 (last Canonical version, daily use)
                        Raspberry Pi 4 B - 4 GB & 8 GB with various OS and Desktops (UBports not OK)

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                        • jezekJ Offline
                          jezek @Pulsar33
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                          @pulsar33 oh, so I don't need to try. Time saved. Thanks.

                          jEzEk

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                          • Pulsar33P Offline
                            Pulsar33 @Pulsar33
                            last edited by Pulsar33

                            @pulsar33 said in "The other" Bluetooth Thread:

                            The important point here is to use basic serial communication (this GPS being an example but not the only one) without the need to install an application. If you have other OS tools suggestions than rfcomm being able to open a bluetooth serial line, I would be glad to give a try ...

                            Any other idea ?

                            And the most important :
                            @pulsar33 said in "The other" Bluetooth Thread:

                            Does the exact message "RFCOMM TTY support not available" make sense for developpers ?

                            Have a nice day
                            Pulsar33

                            Aquaris BQ E5 HD UBports OTA-25 (currently testing features)
                            Aquaris BQ E5 HD Ubuntu Edition Canonical OTA-15 (last Canonical version, daily use)
                            Raspberry Pi 4 B - 4 GB & 8 GB with various OS and Desktops (UBports not OK)

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                            • jezekJ Offline
                              jezek @Pulsar33
                              last edited by

                              @pulsar33 said in "The other" Bluetooth Thread:

                              @pulsar33 said in "The other" Bluetooth Thread:

                              The important point here is to use basic serial communication (this GPS being an example but not the only one) without the need to install an application. If you have other OS tools suggestions than rfcomm being able to open a bluetooth serial line, I would be glad to give a try ...

                              Any other idea ?

                              Maybe this could be any help.
                              https://github.com/ykasidit/bluez-compassion
                              Or is it as useless as my previous suggestion?

                              jEzEk

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                              • Pulsar33P Offline
                                Pulsar33 @jezek
                                last edited by

                                @jezek : Hum, I don't know ...
                                It seems to be scripts using rfcomm.
                                bt-serial : Connects to a specific RFCOMM based service on a remote device and then creates a RFCOMM TTY device for it

                                Not installed by default I think. So, a bit out of scope.

                                Best regards
                                Pulsar33

                                Aquaris BQ E5 HD UBports OTA-25 (currently testing features)
                                Aquaris BQ E5 HD Ubuntu Edition Canonical OTA-15 (last Canonical version, daily use)
                                Raspberry Pi 4 B - 4 GB & 8 GB with various OS and Desktops (UBports not OK)

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