Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a standard for the short-range wireless interconnection of cellular phones, computers, and other electronic devices. BlueZ is an implementation of the Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux, and it is provided by the bluez package.

This article describes the basic installation of Bluetooth controllers and devices.

Prerequisites and Basic Installation

Prerequisites

eudev should be installed and setup:

# setup-devd udev

Basic Installation

Basic installation is as follows:

1. Install bluez
   • Optionally install bluez-deprecated if you need deprecated tools like hcitool
2. Load the btusb kernel module
3. Add user to the lp group
4. Start and enable the Bluetooth service

apk add bluez # apk add bluez-deprecated # modprobe btusb # adduser $USER lp # rc-service bluetooth start # rc-update add bluetooth default