Bluetooth 4.0

Hello, Pau!

I was looking for an answer whether is it possible or not to use a Bluetooth USB dongle with the Riotboard (working on Android) and have found your question. Have you managed that somehow?

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Best regards,

strom

So far we've haerd nothing much on the bluetooth front, we know that the WiPi wifi adapter will be supported at some point with android, but isn't currently.

tusharp any news about either ?

getting bluetooth or wifi working on the RIoT with linux should be possible, but will probably require you to be able to re-compile the kernel if you want to stick with the ubuntu image.

WiPi : support is a must in Android, can confirm that .

Bluetooth: need to check with dev team on the supported USB devices.

cross compiling works on usb-serial gadgets unless it stucks at  annoying Unknown symbol error or Segmentation fault on insmod. .

Thanks a lot! Will wait for any good news about Android and Bluetooth.

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Best regards,

strom

Hello!

As far as I know the Riotboard could be shipped with Android 4.3. On the developer.android.com web site I have found such kind of information about the Android 4.3:

Bluetooth Low Energy | Android Developers

Does it mean that Android 4.3 is capable to recognize a Bluetooth USB dongle, connected to an Android 4.3 device via USB or that only means that Android 4.3 applications are capable to communicate with BLE devices (for example in the case when Android 4.3 is installed on a smartphone, and the smartphone communicates with a BLE device) ?

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Best regards,

strom

Can't say if android can or not, but the problem is liable to be that the drivers haven't been built.  I tried a few usb BT dongles I have and there's no driver in the image to load, so almost irrelevant if the rest of android could theoretically handle them....

whether it's as simple as rebuilding android with some extra drivers (there are instructions posted on how to rebuild it) I don't know.

Does it mean that Android 4.3 is capable to recognize a Bluetooth USB dongle

It means android BLE is capable of querying ONLY to recognised (PID:VID should be available) devices.

Android 4.3 applications are capable to communicate with BLE devices

Correct,  Apps using 4.3 APIs and libraries will be able to use the newly introduced Android BLE.

agrahambell and tusharp, thanks!

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Best regards,

strom

I tried a few usb BT dongles I have and there's no driver in the image to load

The BT support is not much available as of now, but can expect one once the WiPi is fully supported in both Linux/Android platforms.

so almost irrelevant if the rest of android could theoretically handle them

Unless Android has its own userspace drivers to support USB-Serial on BT dongles.

I tried a few usb BT dongles I have and there's no driver in the image to load

The BT support is not much available as of now, but can expect one once the WiPi is fully supported in both Linux/Android platforms.

so almost irrelevant if the rest of android could theoretically handle them

Unless Android has its own userspace drivers to support USB-Serial on BT dongles.