The only times I've had problems with bluetooth in linux have been with devices that are doing something nonstandard while the reverse engineering has been a work in progress, like the PS4 controller pairing process used to be. This is why it would be a 'huge PITA' - you will have a lot of learning to do if you want to do it.
A further complication is that as I understand it daphile replaces the entire image during upgrades, so making your modifications survive an upgrade isn't as easy as with a more conventional distro like Moode or Volumio.
When making custom images it would be used to build the binaries and install them into the image, but neither it nor the compilers and other build tools would be installed into the image. Gentoo's 'package manager' (emerge) is actually a build system inspired by the one from FreeBSD, and usually compiles the 'packages' from source rather than just install existing binaries. An "expert distro" covers the way most people use Gentoo, but you can also use it as a tool for building a custom linux image as Google do for ChromeOS, and I think that's what is done with daphile too. I suspect you're right in thinking the kernel module is present but bluez isn't - I picked bluetoothctl as something that would probably be present if bluez was there. Not much experience with Linux but never had any major problems using BT with Win or Osx. eventual disturbances? Or secondly I wonder if it might has to do with that there seems to be a "linux community general consensus" that BT and Linux is/been a PITA for ages? (this from reading countless forum posts in the matter). Would be very interesting to hear why WiFi is implemented and not BT? Wonder if it has something to do with that Daphile is "advertised" as an"audiophile class music server" and in that sense BT would be "unaudiophile"? But really have no clue, Is'nt RF "same,same" whether it's BT or WiFi re. More like an "expert distro", is that correct? The developer is not very responsive, have tried contact but in other matters and no response what so ever so didn't bother re. But I don't know? Also have the impression that Gentoo is a bit "special" compared with other more general known distros like Ubuntu and the likes. Think I read in a thread somewhere that to get BT to work in Daphile would be a huge PITA and that person thought it's not worth wasting time on it. Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initializedĪs I said I'm far from an expert but I think this says HW support is there but there is no way to control it without bluez, is that right? Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized usb 4-1.1: Product: Bluetooth USB Host Controller Searching and reading a lot, and sometime I'm lucky to find some command that I hope is correct but never quite sure.Īnd from using that info I would suspect that bluez is not implemented in Daphile?įrom another site I found > dmesg | grep -i bluetooth. Since I'm just starting to learn the whole Linux universe and most a "copy/paste" type of guy everything I want to do takes sooo much time and it's very frustating. sadly doesn´t tell me much but sure I understand that BT wouldn´t work without from what you write. Ok so I checked and /lib/modules/*/kernel/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.ko is there but /usr/bin/bluetoothctl is not.
I started with a portable computer for a try : prepare an USB stick and you are done, you can give a try connecting your USB DAC.īut today I want to describe what I've done since near one year.Ĭoffee time, I'll be back in 15 minutes for more. I've played since years with this distribution. And if I want my LMS always on (for bedroom system, bathroom system etc.) I prefer an ultra-low consumption as SBC do.ĭaphile is an old friend. If LMS is on a SBC elsewhere then there is no re-indexing.
If use LMS and an an HDD in the same computer, when booting LMS is starting to re-index the files in the HDD. About LMS inside Daphile, I do not like to use an HDD connected to the USB port of a Daphile computer. The main interest for me is the ability to use the i86 processor capabilities to do something in the domain of high resolution, where the Raspberry is struggling.ĭaphile embarks a client to play audio, but also the LMS, the server part. It is not working with ARM processor family (like Raspberry, Orange Pi, etc.). This specific version of Linux allow to use a computer as a player.