today I received my RPi2 as well as the GigaBlue BLED112 Bluetooth USB dongle. OSMC installation went perfectly well and it works nicely.
But then I tried to setup a bluetooth connection and although dmesg shows the dongle has been added as ttyACM0 device and even recognizes the manufacturer and that it is a bluetooth dongle, hcitool doesnât find any bluetooth enabled devices and lsusb just shows 2458:0001 with no further device information as well.
Does anyone have an idea or got the dongle working already?
thanks but I already installed the bluez package (as well as compiled the latest one) but hciconfig/hcitool doesnât find the device.
Output of dmesg is:
[ 817.047012] usb 1-1.4: new full-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg
[ 817.164546] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=2458, idProduct=0001
[ 817.164575] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 817.164592] usb 1-1.4: Product: Low Energy Dongle
[ 817.164608] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: Bluegiga
[ 817.164624] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 1
[ 817.175853] cdc_acm 1-1.4:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
lsusb output is just:
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 2458:0001
So it seems as if the device is recognized and assigned the device ttyACM0 but hciconfig -a or hcitool dev returns nothing and doesnât recognize the device correctly.
Exactly the same problem here too. Did anyone figure this out? Thanks
The problem that I face is this. I plugged in a BLED112 using OTG cable on a Raspberry Pi Zero. It just doesnât show up as hci device on the RPi. The dongle and the cable work perfectly fine on Win 7 PC. And also on the RPi the device does seem to get detected as /dev/ttyACM0. I have tried this with multiple RPis and multiple BLED112. Itâs the same behavior. I did a firmware upgrade on the BLED112 recently but then I have tested all the dongles on Win7 using BLE GUI Software and it all works perfectly. It just doesnât get detected on the RPi as a hci device.
I believe the problem is that the BLED112 isnât viewed as a bluetooth device on Pi, but rather, a USB device, or more specifically, a USB CDC device.
I too, tried to connect to it with minicom, but still no luck. Then I found a PDF entitled âUSING BLED112 WITH RASPBERRY PIâ (quick start guide). Install python-serial, download the sample program, and youâll see advertisements.