Setting Up Bluetooth Serial Port Profile on Raspberry Pi using D-Bus API

This post shows steps to set up Bluetooth Serial Port Profile[1] (or SPP) on Raspberry Pi. The goal is to establish an SPP connection between Raspberry Pi 3 and Android phone, then send and receive texts using serial terminal applications on both ends. SPP is not available by default. There are two options to enable… Continue reading “Setting Up Bluetooth Serial Port Profile on Raspberry Pi using D-Bus API”

Setting Up Bluetooth Serial Port Profile on Raspberry Pi using sdptool

This post shows steps to set up Bluetooth Serial Port Profile (or SPP)[1] on Raspberry Pi. The goal is to establish SPP connection between Raspberry Pi 3 and Android phone, then send/receive text using serial terminal applications on both ends. SPP is not available by default. There are two options to enable it in BlueZ… Continue reading “Setting Up Bluetooth Serial Port Profile on Raspberry Pi using sdptool”