Multiple dongles...how to prioritise

Multiple dongles...how to prioritise

[Another Sillyname]

Firstly can I apologise if this is meant purely as a developer list,
the bluez website directs end users to this list as the place for
help.

I have a PC with an inbuilt Intel AC7260 combo wifi/BT card.  This
card will NOT support the HID profile and appears as hci0.

I want to use my BT keyboard and mouse on a multi boot machine and
have spent the last few days getting this working across different OS
boots.

However now adding a DBT-120 dongle flashed to HID firmware works fine
once linux loads and I logon.....however I cannot enter the password
to the logon screen unless I remote to the box and hciconfig hci1 up,
I realise I could script this but would rather the DBT-120 was hci0 so
it would happen by default.

Is there a way to 'force' dongles to load in a specific order?

Thanks in advance

Tony

Re: Multiple dongles...how to prioritise

[Szymon Janc]

Hi,

On Thursday 17 of December 2015 12:55:25 Another Sillyname wrote:
> Firstly can I apologise if this is meant purely as a developer list,
> the bluez website directs end users to this list as the place for
> help.
> 
> I have a PC with an inbuilt Intel AC7260 combo wifi/BT card.  This
> card will NOT support the HID profile and appears as hci0.
> 
> I want to use my BT keyboard and mouse on a multi boot machine and
> have spent the last few days getting this working across different OS
> boots.
> 
> However now adding a DBT-120 dongle flashed to HID firmware works fine
> once linux loads and I logon.....however I cannot enter the password
> to the logon screen unless I remote to the box and hciconfig hci1 up,
> I realise I could script this but would rather the DBT-120 was hci0 so
> it would happen by default.
> 
> Is there a way to 'force' dongles to load in a specific order?

I don't think there is a way to pin USB BT dongle to specific hciX.
 
> Thanks in advance

You may check AutoEnable option in policy section of main.conf file.
Setting it to true should auto enable (any) dongle after it is initialized by 
bluetoothd.


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BR
Szymon Janc