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Working on bCandied new release

November 7, 2017 Bill Thompson 0 Comments ios, objective-c, scenekit, spritekit

To speed up release, I am working in Objective-C, removed the C++ PowerVR parts and refactored those bits as modules

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Debian Stretch release – wifi woes with NetworkManager – quick fix

September 8, 2017 Bill Thompson 12 Comments debian stretch, NetworkManager, nmcli, nmtui, wifi

Goal; Get all four USB Wifi Dongles working. Most importantly I want the AC one to work. I read lots

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PocketCHIP Bluez 5.23 A2DP to headset for audio

September 2, 2017September 3, 2017 Bill Thompson 0 Comments a2dp, bluez

The reason for this post is to find a baseline for the actual bluetooth hardware on the PocketCHIP and see

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Cross building bluez-5.46-1 for ARMHF

September 2, 2017September 2, 2017 Bill Thompson 0 Comments armhf, bluez, bluez-5.46, cross-build, debian stretch, mipsel

bluez is an interesting beast, requiring about 10 additional libraries to build if your building without a build system like

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Pocket Chip updated with Bluez 5.46 first try worked great!

August 26, 2017August 26, 2017 Bill Thompson 0 Comments

I got my pocket chip in the mail this past week. And I’ve been curious if I had to do

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Raspberry PI with I2S audio out, and trying I2S audio in.

August 21, 2017August 21, 2017 Bill Thompson 3 Comments i2s, mems, raspberry pi 3

The basic concept is that I2S Audio runs on SPI1 on the PI3.  The PI2/PI3 have 2 SPI’s (SPI1 and

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Bluez 5.46 hciuart configuration changes

August 11, 2017August 21, 2017 Bill Thompson 2 Comments AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA, bluetooth, bluez, bluez-5.46, hciconfig, hciuart, rpi3

Update; 2017-08-13 Sunday I discovered the problem is really in the tools/hciattach_bcm43xx.c file I have now uploaded a patch to

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Bluez 5.46 and Personal Area Network PAN connectivity with RPI3

August 6, 2017August 18, 2017 Bill Thompson 1 Comment bluez-5.46, bnep0, PAN, personal area network, raspberry pi 3, rpi3

For all purposes PAN connection should work with a lot of revisions of Bluez. This is really focused on 5.46

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Bluez 5.46 And BLE quick test

August 6, 2017August 21, 2017 Bill Thompson 2 Comments BLE, bluez-5.46, rpi3

Once you have upgraded to Bluez 5.46 from the previous post; You can perform a quick BLE test with this

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bluetooth 

Build Bluez 5.46 yourself for your Debian Jessie RPI3

August 6, 2017August 21, 2017 Bill Thompson 2 Comments bluez, bluez-5.46, debian, raspberry pi 3, rpi3

Updated on 2017-08-13 Sunday – all working with 5.46-1 on RPI3. All patches that were included as part of ‘stretch’

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