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A set of Polymer elements to discover and communicate with nearby Bluetooth devices
https://elements.polymer-project.org/elements/platinum-bluetooth
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throw error if there is no bluetooth hardware present on host machine #13

Closed VikramTiwari closed 8 years ago

VikramTiwari commented 8 years ago

So today in Ubiquity conference, I was trying this codelab. Ended up debugging for 15 minutes before I found out that there was no bluetooth device on the host machine. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

beaufortfrancois commented 8 years ago

May I ask which host machine you had? I believe there were some Chromebooks available at the Ubiquity Conference.

beaufortfrancois commented 8 years ago

Moreover, you should have seen a ""Bluetooth adapter not available."" error according to https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/content/browser/bluetooth/bluetooth_dispatcher_host.cc&rcl=1452659659&l=646

VikramTiwari commented 8 years ago

Not sure, but the interface was OS-X based, so assuming Mac Mini, but even they have bluetooth hardware as I see in specs.

Tried the same codelab on my mac air with a bluetooth keyboard and trackpad attached, and got following error.

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This is the same error I was getting at the event. And while debugging on the machine, and checking in system preferences, found that there was no bluetooth peripheral. But now since I am getting the same on my machine, seems something else is wrong her.

jyasskin commented 8 years ago

We don't support Mac well yet, and the codelab does say a "Chromebook or an Android M Device" is a prerequisite, but we should also give good error messages instead of just cancelling the chooser. We have https://crbug.com/529547 to track giving that error.

VikramTiwari commented 8 years ago

Ah! Thanks for the link @jyasskin. Will keep an eye on it. :+1: Closing this.