This seems to be a permissions issue. If I run my script with sudo then it works. Not quite sure why the build and install is changing the permissions required. Any thoughts? On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 22:02, Barry Byford <31baz66@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Luiz, > > Thanks for taking a look at this. > > On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 13:12, Luiz Augusto von Dentz > <luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi Barry, > > > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 11:20 PM Barry Byford <31baz66@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > I have tried the same experiment on a Raspberry Pi. > > > > > > $ uname -a > > > Linux raspberrypi 4.14.79-v7+ #1159 SMP Sun Nov 4 17:50:20 GMT 2018 > > > armv7l GNU/Linux > > > > > > I ran the peripheral code I have and it worked fine on the Raspberry > > > Pi. I then rebuilt BlueZ 5.43 and reinstalled it and I see the same > > > issue with getting notificatins. > > > That is, reading of the characteristic in the Nordic nRF app on my > > > phone works. However, when I activate notifications I can see the > > > status change on the peripheral and the notifications show up on the > > > DBus. The notifications just don't show up in btmon or on my phone. > > > > Perhaps is being blocked somehow, you got the StartNotification I > > suppose? Please make sure the object path matches otherwise it won't > > work, you may also check how bluetoothctl does handle notifications > > since that has been working for a while. > > My code is working with the default installation of BlueZ that is on > the board. The issue is when I build a version of BlueZ on the board > myself. > This leads me to believe it is not the code I'm running. > > > > > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions of how I can debug this? > > > > The usual btmon traces and bluetoothd debug logs are normally a good > > idea to share since there could be some bug, though Ive been testing > > this regularly with bluetoothctl and that has been stable for a while, > > at least on master that is. > > > > Here are the logs. > https://gist.github.com/ukBaz/b8317f2d76acc6dbf844c2713555974e > To my untrained eye it looks like the notification is started but it > never shows up. In the dbus-monitor output below, the notifications > are on the dbus. I can't tell where they are going missing between the > dbus and bluetoothd. > > > > > Thanks, > > > Barry > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 22:37, Barry Byford <31baz66@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I have a system that comes with BlueZ 5.43 installed on a single board > > > > computer (SBC). I have downloaded, built and installed various newer > > > > versions of BlueZ but I am having problems getting them working > > > > correctly. > > > > > > > > I have a peripheral (very similar to the gatt server example in the > > > > test directory) with one characteristic. My example was working before > > > > upgrading. However after upgrading, when I turn on notification for > > > > the characteristic it is not showing on the phone. > > > > > > > > I do see the notification turn up in dbus-monitor but not in btmon. > > > > > > > > signal time=1551910979.743011 sender=:1.38 -> destination=(null > > > > destination) serial=339 path=/ukBaz/bluezero/service0001/char0001; > > > > interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties; member=PropertiesChanged > > > > string "org.bluez.GattCharacteristic1" > > > > array [ > > > > dict entry( > > > > string "Value" > > > > variant array of bytes [ > > > > 78 14 > > > > ] > > > > ) > > > > ] > > > > array [ > > > > ] > > > > > > > > I have tried going back to version 5.43 again but now that is not > > > > working either. > > > > > > > > The configure I ran was: > > > > ./configure --prefix=/usr \ > > > > --mandir=/usr/share/man \ > > > > --sysconfdir=/etc \ > > > > --localstatedir=/var \ > > > > --enable-experimental \ > > > > --enable-maintainer-mode > > > > > > > > > > > > To get configure to work without error I needed to install the following: > > > > sudo apt install glib2. > > > > sudo apt install libdbus-1-dev libudev-dev libical-dev libreadline-dev > > > > > > > > I have tried various variations on this and done a lot of searching > > > > but don't seem to find an answer. > > > > Is anyone else seeing this issue? > > > > Anyone have any suggestions as what I could try? > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Barry > > > > > > > > -- > > Luiz Augusto von Dentz
