Hi, On Fri, Sep 13, 2013, Johan Hedberg wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote: > > > This device is using random device address, but I do not know how to > > > pair with it in that case. I try to pair with it using a smartphone > > > with support and it is working. Any help, or input on this? > > > > I believe we don't support pairing with devices using random/private, > > but you should probably upgrade if you are planning to use Bluetooth > > LE BlueZ 5.x is recommended. > > In general we don't really support any LE related stuff with BlueZ 4 > simply because LE pairing requires the mgmt interface and it wasn't > stable yet during BlueZ 4 times. > > Regarding pairing with random addressed devices, BlueZ 5 will allow that > but only for a single connection. Once you disconnect the pairing info > is gone since it'd anyway be unusable if the remote side changed its > address. Until we get IRK generation support for the kernel this is how > user space will keep behaving. Correcting myself: it's only private random address devices that will have this behavior; static random addresses will work fine and keep the pairing info persistent. Johan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
