Bluetooth – AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

October 31, 2019

Homemade Bluetooth Auto-start Still Trucking!

Well, after a year of service, thousands of miles, and a full fall, winter, spring, and summer, my home made Bluetooth auto-start is still trucking! It’s been really convenient as […]

November 6, 2018

BlueFruit Project: Fixed Erratic Crank Behavior

Another problem that I have run into while working with this Bluetooth auto start is an erratic crank behavior. Per the code, it should not start the crank circuit if […]

October 30, 2018

BlueFruit Project: Low voltage safety

Having tested out the Bluetooth auto start for a little while through regular use, I came to an interesting conundrum. What should the auto start do if the voltage is […]

October 16, 2018

Bluetooth Breakdown: Sending gatttool commands from my Ubuntu Touch Phone!

Here I am, typing commands from my phone and controlling a Bluetooth Feather! Of course, the moment of truth! The goal of this whole Bluetooth breakdown project was to figure […]

October 9, 2018

Bluetooth Breakdown: Sending my own commands with gatttool

Yes, there is purposely one too many t’s in GattTool. Last time we looked at the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) packets being sent from my Android app to my home […]

October 2, 2018

Bluetooth Breakdown?

So, in the continuing saga of learning about Bluetooth, I am breaking down some transmissions of Bluetooth signal from my Android phone to the Bluetooth auto start that I built. […]

September 25, 2018

Foray into Bluetooth Programming through C and C++

alaskalinuxuser@alaskalinuxuser-OptiPlex-7010:~/Documents/c++/bluetooth/cbluez$ ./simplescan FC:58:FA:08:72:E4 CANZ alaskalinuxuser@alaskalinuxuser-OptiPlex-7010:~/Documents/c++/bluetooth/cbluez$ ./simplescan FC:58:FA:08:72:E4 CANZ alaskalinuxuser@alaskalinuxuser-OptiPlex-7010:~/Documents/c++/bluetooth/cbluez$ ./simplescan 00:00:00:00:5A:AD bacon FC:58:FA:08:72:E4 CANZ alaskalinuxuser@alaskalinuxuser-OptiPlex-7010:~/Documents/c++/bluetooth/cbluez$ That was the terminal output from the program “simplescan”, which I got from an instructive […]

July 25, 2018