Well, I'm still working on this one. I've been using a script that works fine over the short term, but testing over longer periods results in failure to reconnect. None of the commands that are available for reconnecting appear to be very robust. The cron setup and the use of hcitool lq x:x:x:x:x:x ...

OK, the modifications to my script are untested at the moment, but to summarize, if I use hcitool lq xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx if [$?]; then hcitool cc xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx fi lq checks link quality, but will return a value of zero if connected and one if connected. Here hcitool cc is used, but that could be h...

Yes, there's always more ways to skin a cat... care to suggest a way to accomp[lish this without writing a file every two minutes?

A minor error got introduced -- the backslash character in the first script is out of place without an end line following it

OK, I finally have time to post. I think. First, here is the script that sets up a cron event: echo '0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58 * * * * /home/pi/mse_kbd.sh' \ > /home/pi/cronfile crontab -u pi cronfile Next, the actual cronfile that is create...

I have found a solution to this problem that works for me on my Raspberry Pi 2. Of course, it could be tuned a bit and I am going to keep looking for more elegant solutions. Basically, the problem has been that the connection of the Bluetooth mouse and keyboard required that a hard-wired mouse and k...

I like the comparison with an odroid C1. It is like a Pi 2 without the earphone connector (uses HDMI sound), camera (but works with 720p USB cameras), and led display and composite video connectors (uses HDMI), but with a faster Arm microprocessor, gigabit Ethernet, and onboard RTC -- at the same pr...

I'll assume you are asking about Raspbian OS, but almost all of the non-Windows Pi OSes will be similar. Raspbian is a Linux implementation derived from Debian Linux, and that means that documentation for Raspbian already exists online as documentation for Debian. But Raspbian is a "light" version o...

I'm working on the same difficulty. Clearly there is a lot of interest in using the Pi with living room televisions. I want to be able to sit on the living room couch with Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and do things like checking e-mail. A mouse and keyboard cord isn't appropriate in this setting. We...

Thanks, what's ghans? And, yes, the Raspberry Pi Foundation's choices sound very much like the information I had in mind. I suppose if I were to figure out more about using apt, I'd be able to find out what packages my Pi 2 is loaded with, but that might not really answer the question I had, especia...

Actually, I see this question as more interesting than merely being answered by the word 'Debian'. The out-of-the-box Debian Wheezy for iX86 architectures makes a lot of choices that are different than the Raspbian implementation that came with my Noobs chip (post Feb 2, 2015). Raspbian didn't come ...

Is there a datasheet on the BCM2836? I checked the Broadcom web site and found nothing...I'm looking for information on counter/timers in the Raspberry PI 2. I'm also curious about whether the GPS boards can be queried for current time. It seems to my way of thinking that accurate time would be avai...