lundi 24 février 2014

The chromium team was happy to share this week-end with the rest of the community that Chrome OS (BlueZ...

Chrome OS now supports Bluetooth

François Beaufort originally shared:

The chromium team was happy to share this week-end with the rest of the community that Chrome OS (BlueZ 5.x) is now qualified as a Host Subsystem for Bluetooth 4.0 & Low Energy.

It basically means Chrome devices support:

- Bluetooth 4.0¹ (aka Bluetooth Smart)

- Bluetooth Low Energy² (previously called Wibree)

- A2DP High-definition Audio³

For information, if you've enabled the Developer Mode⁴ on your Chrome Device, you can open a Chrome OS Shell and type bluetoothctl to enter a Bluetooth shell and type show. There, it should display some cool information about your Chrome device.

For instance, I learnt some geeky stuff by reading the modalias line on my Chromebook Pixel on Dev Channel:

Vendor ID: 00E0 (Google)

Product ID: 240A (Always start with "24", the Chromium Atomic Number)

Device ID: 0400 (Bluetooth version 4.0)

¹ http://ift.tt/1eaZKGB

² http://ift.tt/s3bSjg

³ http://ift.tt/HVMAyw

⁴ http://ift.tt/1dpq2ko

Source: http://ift.tt/1eaZKGH