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# 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 (pip install ble-serial` ) 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 blescan 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: list, e.g. with USB adapters (this will add them to the front of the list of possible ports so that you can quickly choose between them): ``` favorite_ports = /tmp/ttyBLE ```