Bluetooth connect with dongle

[Mister-SH]

Emuelec 4.5
TV-Box with Allwinner H3
Bluetooth dongle - Orico BTA-403. bluetooth 4.0
When I go to settings and try to connect Dualshock 4 nothing happens. Window (where pairing device write) in right up corner just blink.
Bluetooth dongle blink - there is a power on usb 2.0 port. So physically it works

[asakous]

The kernel that I use in this project is very old and may not work with new devices. (like Dualshock 4).
I have no intention to fix any bluetooth controller problems. since H3 chip it''s old and not worth to fix it.
I am currently use xbox360 wireless controller, it works out of the box.

[Mister-SH]

In version 4.2 Emuelec try to connect with Dualshock or other bluetooth device and window appears but in version 4.5 window doesn't appear so Emuelec doesn't try to connect via bluetooth with any bluetooth device

[asakous]

since I working on another project. I am accidently find out what the problem are.
It will be fixed next release.

[asakous]

@Mister-SH new image uploaded.

[Mister-SH]

I test new 4.5-1 and issue still exists. But...
I try to connect DS4 via BT from SSH and it connect. So, what we have

• from ES interface I can't connect DS4 via bluetooth - window just blink once
• I can connect DS4 by SSH commandline
  When Emuelec loads in left top corner there is a log and there is an error Can't run bluetooth agent (something like this, don't remember exactly)

[asakous]

Yes . I think it's a Batocera Bluetooth agent problem. Since newer version of EmuELEC required gobject-introspection package and I just couldn't get it compiled. So the best solution right now is put the Bluetooth connect commands into autostart.sh or custom_start.sh . hopefully someone can fix this compile problem it in near future.

[shantigilbert]

gobject-introspection package and I just couldn't get it compiled.

what was the error? I ran into a few issues with it as well

[asakous]

/home/matthew/Neo-EmuELEC-H3/build.EmuELEC-H3.arm-4.5/toolchain/lib/libgobject-2.0.a(gclosure.c.o): In function value_to_ffi_type': gclosure.c:(.text+0x213): undefined reference to ffi_type_uint64'
gclosure.c:(.text+0x237): undefined reference to ffi_type_sint64' gclosure.c:(.text+0x257): undefined reference to ffi_type_uint32'
gclosure.c:(.text+0x26f): undefined reference to ffi_type_pointer' gclosure.c:(.text+0x287): undefined reference to ffi_type_sint32'
gclosure.c:(.text+0x29f): undefined reference to ffi_type_double' gclosure.c:(.text+0x2b7): undefined reference to ffi_type_float'

upgrade gobject ?

gobject-introspection also needs qemu . I guess this problem also exists.

another approach is to use Nuitka the Python Compiler . compile Batocera scripts into portable and executable scripts.

[shantigilbert]

Sorry I had a different issue, not sure how to fix that one, but it seems like its missing libfifi for whatever reason?

[asakous]

@shantigilbert Now I got different error. It seems like pygobject problem. but I get it compiled. not sure why?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/batocera/batocera-bluetooth-agent", line 14, in
from gi.repository import GLib
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gi/init.py", line 42, in
from . import _gi
ImportError: cannot import name '_gi' from 'gi' (/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gi/init.py)

[asakous]

never mind .
ln -sf _gi.cpython-37-x86_64-linux-gnu.so _gi.so seems fix the problem

[asakous]

seems work find now

[shantigilbert]

Yeah that was the issue I was having, glad you figured it out.

[asakous]

no repsonse for long time . closed