Linux and Bluetooth

khunphet · 07-12-2020, 07:13 PM

I hope I've posted to the proper forum; if not please relocate my question. Thanks.

I am trying to transfer some pictures from a mobile phone over to my laptop. The phone company suggests sharing the pictures via Bluetooth which I do find on my mobile - so that's half of the solution.

My question is about the remaining half: Can I get my XenialPup 7.5 to use Bluetooth and if so, how do I go about that task?

JZL240I-U · 07-13-2020, 05:36 AM

Hmmm, considering your signature: if you have anywhere still Plasma / KDE running, just load "KDE Connect". For me it works just fine (though it uses WIFI).

pan64 · 07-13-2020, 09:34 AM

I can easily move any kind of file between my phone and any [other] pc by: creating a draft mail in gmail (on my phone) attaching my pictures/files and I can read that mail anywhere.
Using bluetooth is probably not the easy way.

khunphet · 07-14-2020, 04:00 AM

For JZL2401-U

Thanks for the post. While it sounds a bit cryptic to me, could you please describe your solution a bit more detail?

For pan64

Thanks to you too. Unfortunately, my phone is not an iphone, it's a very simple mobile that I can use for telephoning and sending SMS messages.

pan64 · 07-14-2020, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by khunphet

For JZL2401-U

Thanks for the post. While it sounds a bit cryptic to me, could you please describe your solution a bit more detail?

KDE is a desktop, which has a built-in solution to connect. If you have (use) KDE you only need to "KDE Connect". If you don't know what is this KDE most probably you have no KDE Connect installed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by khunphet

For pan64

Thanks to you too. Unfortunately, my phone is not an iphone, it's a very simple mobile that I can use for telephoning and sending SMS messages.

This works on android too.

probably something like this: https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubunt...device.html.en may help.

JZL240I-U · 07-14-2020, 06:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

KDE is a desktop, which has a built-in solution to connect. If you have (use) KDE you only need to "KDE Connect"...

I think KDE Connect is a widget. You have to install it into the lower menu bar via right click into the system tray.

dilbert_uk · 07-16-2020, 12:38 AM

On my laptop, I am using xfce with the blueman-applet. Sometimes, it seems a bit flaky.

And as it didn't work from the beginning due to a missing patch for the kernel driver, I tried everything bottom-up, starting with:

sudo rfkill list

sudo bluetoothctl