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I have a bluetooth GPS device which has successfully paired, shows in the list of bluetooth devices.

However, I seem unable to connect to it to allow my satnav software to use it (PC Navigator 14 free via wine).

Have I missed something here?

OK, I found a useful link here and, using blueman software have definitely connected bluetooth to the GPS device and created a symbolic link to com1. BUT... the software doesn't seem to recognise the com port!

ANybody else seen this?

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  • You might want to look at wiki.winehq.org/USB
    – Jeremy31
    Feb 3, 2015 at 23:04
  • Thanks, but I'm now confused! Does Ubuntu see the Bluetooth device as a USB device? Does wine see the Bluetooth device as a USB device? Feb 4, 2015 at 12:50
  • Most of the bluetooth devices will be listed when you use command lsusb in terminal. I don't know if wine has a way to use them or not
    – Jeremy31
    Feb 4, 2015 at 14:32

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OK, I've discovered why wine couldn't see the bluetooth ports:

  1. Used blueman bluetooth manager to connect to the device and set up a serial port /dev/rfcomm0

  2. Create a link to the serial port in ~/.wine/dosdevices:

     ln -s /dev/rfcomm0 com1
    
  3. Add myself to dialout group so I can access the ports created in /dev:

     sudo gpasswd -a steve dialout
    

wine apps can now see serial ports.

I still have a problem with the app not keeping hold of the com port but that's another question!

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