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Pavel Moravec, 12/01/2024 12:06 PM


Bluetooth (BLE) Radios

Using Bluetooth radio (which use a BLE-based serial approach):

It works on Linux (and possibly MacOS) if you use the ble-serial:

  1. Install ble-serial Python package ( pip install ble-serial )
  2. Make note of the Radio MAC address (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx) e.g. from Android BT application (or install blescan the same way and use sudo blescan to find the devices in neighborhood)
  3. run ble-serial -d xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx being the address)
  4. In the Download/Upload dialog choose /tmp/ttyBLE as the Custom... port and do standard download/upload
  5. Please note that the radio restarts after upload and BLE BT connection is lost, you have to restart ble-serial in such case
  6. If you want to make it permanent, add /tmp/ttyBLE to favorite_ports= (as described on AdvancedConfig) into the [state] section (you may have to create the key) in ~/.chirp/chirp.config with your favorite editor to have it always listed in port list:
favorite_ports = /tmp/ttyBLE

Updated by Pavel Moravec 21 days ago · 2 revisions