Mr. Gibbs

bluez

A 8-post collection

2 years ago

2017 & Pi Zero W updates

bluez   bluetooth   raspbian   raspberry-pi-zero   raspberry-pi   mono  

There have been a number of blog comments from people attempting to use Gibbs but having issues with newer versions of mono or blueZ, hopefully my latest update to the installation procedure will help…

3 years ago

BlueZ 5.39 BLE setup on the Raspberry Pi

bluez   raspbian   raspberry-pi   bluetooth   ble  

One of the things that I have done to really accelerate development of Mr. Gibbs is to do much of my work on an old laptop running ubuntu linux. Since ubuntu and raspbian are both debian based, most…

3 years ago

Final Prototype Assembly

bluez   bluetooth   gatt   accelerometer   compass   raspbian   raspberry-pi  

With the first regatta of 2016 only 2 weeks away, I'm finally getting the latest revision of Mr. Gibbs to the point where it's ready to actually throw on the boat and sail. The major development of l…

3 years ago

Bluetooth Low Energy with C#, BlueZ 5 and Mono

mono   ble   bluetooth   blend-micro   dbus   bluez   gatt  

The major change from Mr. Gibbs 2015 to 2016 is the rewrite of all the bluetooth calls to support BlueZ 5. It sure seems like a lot of work just to be on the latest version number, and indeed, there…

3 years ago

Connecting to a Bluetooth Serial Port Profile with BlueZ and Mono

dbus   bluez   bluetooth   linux   c#   rfcomm   profile  

Once you have paired your bluetooth device with BlueZ, the next step depends on what type of device it is. One of the most common bluetooth profiles is the Serial port profile. I could write quite a…

3 years ago

Bluetooth Pairing with .Net/C# BlueZ and dbus

bluetooth   bluez   mono   c#   .net   pebble   linux  

At this point in the project I had a working dbus implementation to use, and it was time to begin actually implement some bluetooth functionality. The first thing I did was to attempt to convert the…

3 years ago

Get on dbus (with .Net)

c#   mono   dbus   bluez   bluetooth   linux  

If you read my post about getting .Net working with BlueZ 4, you, like me, were probably left feeling a little... dirty. Interop is never fun in .Net, even less so when it involves patching and build…

3 years ago

PebbleSharp, Linux, and BlueZ 4

pebble   raspbian   bluez   bluetooth   c#   linux   mono   pebblesharp  

After my initial pilot of a Javascript/phone application written for the pebble to see how the idea worked, I decided to build a solution which would allow me to keep my (relatively) expensive phone o…