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darla14
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August 24, 2021
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Support for BlueZ in the STM32MPU distribution package?

  • August 24, 2021
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Hello ,

Is the BlueZ supported or added in the Distribution or developer or starter image?

I tried running bluetoothd -v to get the version of the bluetoothd (and hence the Bluez which has this demon built) but I got this :

root@stm32mp1:~# bluetoothd -v

-sh: bluetoothd: not found

I then tried building the Distribution package which has this meta-connectivity layer where there is BlueZ is in add on Recipes ( https://wiki.st.com/stm32mpu/wiki/STM32MP15_OpenSTLinux_release_note)

bluez5meta-st/meta-st-openstlinux/recipes-connectivity/bluez5/bluez5_%.bbappend

Do I have to add this layer? or will it be built by bitbake st-image-weston

?

 Using bitbake st-image-weston and fishing the image gives the same result.

Please tell the steps to build and use BlueZ and all the utilities it provides (bluetoothd,meshctl)

Thanks in advance !

Regards,

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    Best answer by Jean-Marc B

    Hi @darla14​ 

    first, you need to check if your BT environment is correctly probed: https://wiki.st.com/stm32mpu/wiki/Bluetooth_overview#How_to_trace_and_debug_the_framework

    From my side, after setting the BT parameters (https://wiki.st.com/stm32mpu/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_Bluetooth_connection) and following this wiki page https://wiki.st.com/stm32mpu/wiki/How_to_scan_Bluetooth_devices, I successfully paired my board STM32MPU157C-DK2 running OpenSTLinux 3.0 with my phone.

    For BTLE, take a look at the wiki page https://wiki.st.com/stm32mpu/wiki/How_to_scan_BLE_devices#BLE_device_connection_step-by-step

    Finally, the error message you referred to is normal as the BT daemon is already running through the systemd service:

    $ systemctl status bluetooth
[0;1;32m*[[0m bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
 Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
 Active: [[0;1;32mactive (running)[[0m since Tue 2021-08-31 08:09:42 UTC; 2min 35s ago
 Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
 Main PID: 571 (bluetoothd)
 Status: "Running"
 Memory: 2.0M
 CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
 `-571 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd
 
Aug 31 08:09:41 stm32mp1 systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service...
Aug 31 08:09:42 stm32mp1 systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.

    Best regards,

    --JM

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    Jean-Marc B
    ST Employee
    August 25, 2021

    Hi @darla14​ 

    Bluetooth is fully supported and the bluetoothd program is installed by default in OpenSTLinux image but it is not available in your PATH environment:

    root@stm32mp1:~# ps -aux | grep blue
root 572 0.0 0.6 4792 2920 ? Ss 06:31 0:00 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd
root 1100 0.0 0.2 2024 1112 ttySTM0 S+ 06:37 0:00 grep blue

    So, the command you mentioned runs fine:

    root@stm32mp1:~# /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd -v
5.55

    About the availability of the meshctl utility, please refer to the following link : https://community.st.com/s/question/0D50X0000BTdF20SQF/stm32mp157cdk2-bluetooth-mesh .

    Best regards,

    --JM

    Edit: add link to build meshctl

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    darla14Author
    Graduate
    August 25, 2021

    Thanks for your reply. Do you know where I can find the compiled binary for

    https://github.com/bluez/bluez/blob/master/test/example-gatt-server ??

    or

    https://github.com/bluez/bluez/blob/master/tools/gatt-service.c

    Regards,

    D

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    Jean-Marc B
    ST Employee
    August 26, 2021

    Hi @darla14​ 

    The two binaries are available from the package bluez5-testtools from our OpenSTLinux repository. You can install it with the command:

    $ apt-get install bluez5-testtools

    The compiled binaries are then in the directory /usr/lib/bluez/test

    Best regards,

    --JM

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    darla14Author
    Graduate
    August 26, 2021

    Thanks for the prompt reply .

    Ok this works , after i did apt-get update as well before running

    apt-get install bluez5-testtools

    root@stm32mp1:/usr/lib/bluez/test# ./example-gatt-server 

    ./example-gatt-server:394: PyGIDeprecationWarning: GObject.timeout_add is deprecated; use GLib.timeout_add instead

     GObject.timeout_add(5000, self.drain_battery)

    ./example-gatt-server:651: PyGIDeprecationWarning: GObject.MainLoop is deprecated; use GLib.MainLoop instead

     mainloop = GObject.MainLoop()

    Registering GATT application...

    GetManagedObjects

    GATT application registered

    But on the lightblue App (iPhone) , i cant see the device.What device name should I get?

    Also is there way to build this using makefile if I want to customise it? How?

    Since it depends on dbus and glib and bluez requires ./confgue kind of scripts to build which I am not sure is feasible for cross compiling the bluez/test-*

    Regards,

    D

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