On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 09:14:54AM +0300, Benjamin wrote: > > [rick@localhost ~]$ sudo rfcomm -i hci1 connect 0 00:13:43:0E:6B:D0 5 > > Connected /dev/rfcomm0 to 00:13:43:0E:6B:D0 on channel 5 > > Press CTRL-C for hangup > > > > The connection works with channel 5. I have no idea what's special > > about channel 5 but I'm not complaining. > > > > After connecting, to get Subsurface to download from the Petrel I had > > to add myself to the dialout group (or run Subsurface as root, which > > is a lazy but silly thing to do) in order to avoid permissions errors > > when downloading, but that's pretty standard. > > > > <snip> > > > > Willem, there's now a solution/workaround that works for me, but > > unfortunately it's a bit messy and I'm not sure if it will work the > > same on other systems. I'll play around a bit more, testing my > > different bluetooth dongles (and onboard device) and perhaps different > > distros. I'll see if I can write something for the manual this > > weekend or next week. > > Thank you! > Channel 5 works for me too, on both my on-board (Samsung 13 inch NP300V3A > laptop) bluetooth and with the Shearwater dongle. It also works with a > Toshiba laptop's (Satellite A500 138) on-board bluetooth. Both are running > Fedora 21 and the BlueZ 5 stack.
Can we also create a brief note for the FAQ? The manual won't be updated until a 4.5 release which is quite a ways away from what I can see (given that most of the main developers seem to be distracted with other things these days). /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
