BLERadios » History » Version 2
Pavel Moravec, 12/01/2024 12:06 PM
| 1 | 1 | Dan Smith | # Bluetooth (BLE) Radios |
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| 3 | Using Bluetooth radio (which use a BLE-based serial approach): |
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| 5 | It works on Linux (and possibly MacOS) if you use the ble-serial: |
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| 6 | 2 | Pavel Moravec | 1. Install ble-serial Python package ( `pip install ble-serial` ) |
| 7 | 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) |
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| 8 | 1 | Dan Smith | 3. run `ble-serial -d xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx` (`xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx` being the address) |
| 9 | 4. In the Download/Upload dialog choose `/tmp/ttyBLE` as the Custom... port and do standard download/upload |
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| 10 | 5. Please note that the radio restarts after upload and BLE BT connection is lost, you have to restart ble-serial in such case |
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| 11 | 2 | Pavel Moravec | 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: |
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| 13 | ``` |
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| 14 | favorite_ports = /tmp/ttyBLE |
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| 15 | ``` |