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yoooyle

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Registered: 2015-02-25

Posts: 2

Persistent mapping from BT hardware to hci name

I want a stable mapping from bluetooth hardware to hciX under /sys/class/bluetooth, similar to how wlanX maps to wifi chips.

I wrote a udev rule. The rule is matching correctly by vender/product. But how do i actually change the name? With wlan, i can simply specify NAME="wlan0". Thanks!

SUBSYSTEM="bluetooth", ATTRS{idVendor}=="foo", ATTRS={idProduct}="bar", RUN+="some_no_op_script.sh"

Knute

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From: Minot, ND

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 604

Re: Persistent mapping from BT hardware to hci name

hciconfig has the name option where you can both get and set the name.

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Knute

yoooyle

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Registered: 2015-02-25

Posts: 2

Re: Persistent mapping from BT hardware to hci name

I tried that. The name is only recognized by hciconfig. not bdaddr, hcitool or other commands. For example, i can't do

hcitool -i theNewName scan

I have to do

hcitool -i hci1 scan