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Update suggestions to readme #5

Closed CheapB closed 8 years ago

CheapB commented 8 years ago

I suggest following updates to the Readme based on a fairly clean RPI Jessie install:

Requirements: Following needs to be installed if not present on your system already: libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libdbus-1-dev libudev-dev automake libtool

install with: sudo apt-get install

example: "./daemon -l -f flic.sqlite3" needs to be "sudo ./daemon -l -f flic.sqlite3"

tips:

If you get the error message "D-Bus setup failed: Name already in use" you can try "ps aux | grep blue" and then "Sudo kill " for the appropriate process

the device may be down for various reasons. try "sudo hciconfig hci0 up"

Not all flic glows in public mode. if you cant get it to do so - just hold it for 8+ sec while you try to connect.

KaiboshOz commented 8 years ago

Appreciate the post CheapB.. After getting most of the way, I was having trouble with the scan. I'm using a different BT adapter than the 2 noted, so I figured it was that. Lo and behold, it was the need to bring the device up (which I recall seeing mentioning amongst my huge amount of googling yesterday, and was one of the things on a long list to try when I resumed).

CheapB commented 8 years ago

there are actually a number of other libraries required that I already had installed. I will try to compile a complete list

CheapB commented 8 years ago

The complete prerequisites for BlueZ on RPI/Jessie can be found here. Not sure if this is relevant for all platforms or not https://github.com/50ButtonsEach/fliclib-linux-dist/issues/10