[HowTo] Pandaboard onboard bluetooth

[asdil12]

In this howto I describe how to use the builtin bluetooth of the Pandaboard.

EDIT: We got this packaged! - Just do this:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
pacman -S ti-uim
systemctl enable ti-uim.service
systemctl enable bluetooth.service
systemctl start ti-uim.service
systemctl start bluetooth.service
')

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OLD HowTo', '
')To use bluetooth, you will need some strange userspace daemon called uim, which does some initialisation on the bluetooth device.

Preparation:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
git clone https://git.gitorious.org/uim/uim.git
cd uim
make')

Activation:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# after each boot (as root)
modprobe st_drv
./uim &
modprobe btwilink
hciconfig hci0 up')

After performing these steps, I was able to pair, connect and use my bluetooth keyboard (as described here).

source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandaboard/On6_tZG79Kk

[qball]

Thanks for the How-To.

But please do not suggest people to get a git checkout and do a make as root, its not needed.

[kmihelich]

If you want to turn this into a package, we could include it in our repos. Will need to figure out a name other than "uim" though, since there is already a uim package that is a multilingual input library. Maybe something like "ti-uim" since it seems to be specific to the TI systems on OMAP.

[WarheadsSE]

And it should be in the alarm/ tree.

[asdil12]

created pull request: https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/pull/680

[WarheadsSE]

Merged. Thank you for your contribution!