Bluetooth BlueGiga Adapter

This extension supports Bluetooth access via a BlueGiga (BLED112) USB dongle.

Supported Things

It defines the following bridge type:

Bridge Type ID	Description
bluegiga	A BlueGiga USB dongle using a BLED112 chip

Discovery

The adapter cannot be discovered; its serial port must be manually configured.

Bridge Configuration

The bluegiga bridge requires the configuration parameter port, which corresponds to the serial port the dongle is connected to. Additionally, the parameter backgroundDiscovery can be set to true/false. When set to true, any Bluetooth device of which broadcasts are received is added to the Inbox.

Example

This is how an BlueGiga adapter can be configured textually in a *.things file:

Bridge bluetooth:bluegiga:1 [ port="/dev/ttyS0", backgroundDiscovery=false ]

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