TS-TPC-7990 Bluetooth

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The WIFI option on the board also includes a bluetooth 4.0 LE module. To use bluetooth, it is necessary to first configure the WIFI interface. Then, run the following commands:

# Install bluez if it is not already present
apt-get update
apt-get install bluez bluez-tools

hciattach /dev/ttymxc2 any 115200 noflow
hciconfig hci0 up
hcitool cmd 0x3F 0x0053 00 10 0E 00 01
stty -F /dev/ttymxc2 921600 crtscts

# If your board is REV A use this setup instead:
echo 237 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo low > /sys/class/gpio/gpio237/direction
echo high > /sys/class/gpio/gpio237/direction
sleep .1
hciattach /dev/ttymxc1 texas 3000000
hciconfig hci0 up

Now you may scan for available devices with:

hcitool scan

This will return a list of devices such as:

14:74:11:AB:12:34	SAMSUNG-SM-G900A

You may request more information from a detected device like so:

hcitool info 14:74:11:AB:12:34

This will produce lots of details about the device, for example:

Requesting information ...                                                      
        BD Address:  14:74:11:AB:12:34                                          
        OUI Company: Samsung Electronics Co.,Ltd (4C-A5-6D)                     
        Device Name: SAMSUNG-SM-G900A                                           
        LMP Version: 4.1 (0x7) LMP Subversion: 0x610c                           
        Manufacturer: Broadcom Corporation (15)                                 
        Features page 0: 0xbf 0xfe 0xcf 0xfe 0xdb 0xff 0x7b 0x87        
        .
        .
        .

Bluez has support for many different profiles for HID, A2DP, and many more. Refer to the Bluez documentation for more information.