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Hi i wanna know how to use bluetooth tethering with Janky Bluetooth Wizard

There's no help on this topic, can anyone guide me through this ?

PhilB did in fact include instructions that he described as "hit or miss."

With your dongle and BT device on and discover-able, did hitting "Start Bluetooth" pick up your controller?

Of course it did!

Granted, it's simply a matter of following-through with PhilB's instructions.

Semme wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 9:43 pm

Granted, it's simply a matter of following-through with PhilB's instructions.

I cant understand what i need to do here ??

As per the instructions I did like this

#!/bin/sh
#edit the following line adding your device iD. example   ....                   dev_DC_F0_90_2F_01_C5

dbus-send --system --type=method_call --dest=org.bluez /org/bluez/hci0/dev_22_22_8C_F2_80_BB org.bluez.Network1.Connect string:'nap'

where dev_22_22_8C_F2_80_BB is my device id (actually 22:22:8C:F2:80:BB) and then i clicked on tether to phone and open frisbee but as it says i cound find any new interface named 'bnep0'

Ayush,

What is it you wanna do here with BT?

Share your phone's internet connection or possibly stream audio?

Does your phone have a BT tethering option?

Keep in mind your computer must have a functioning BT controller.

Semme wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 7:21 pm

Ayush,

What is it you wanna do here with BT?

Share your phone's internet connection or possibly stream audio?

Does your phone have a BT tethering option?

Keep in mind your computer must have a functioning BT controller.

Yes i have a functioning bt adapter (see here) and i wanna share my phone's internet connection.
Yes my phone has bluetooth tethering option.

Does your phone have a BT tethering option -- a menu item you enable?

Semme wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 7:41 pm

Does your phone have a BT tethering option -- a menu item you enable?

yes ofc it has
Btw I am using custom rom Pixel Experience android 12 hope there's no problem with that

Hang in there. IMO success with BT boils down to the order of events.

Thanks to the Arch wiki it's good to know this whole process can be -- Tip: automated.

I got it to work only to discover my device is NOT network capable.

On the other hand I should be able to provide you a routine you can try in the next day or two.

Make sure you know the correct Bluetooth address of your phone.

You'll find this in Settings >> About phone.

Semme wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:41 pm

Make sure you know the correct Bluetooth address of your phone.

You'll find this in Settings >> About phone.

Yeah i know it. It's the same as the address here

Semme wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:20 pm

I got it to work only to discover my device is NOT network capable.

On the other hand I should be able to provide you a routine you can try in the next day or two.

Yes tell me how you got it to show that bnep0 interface

Say, after you added your phone's BT addy and saved, hit "Tether to Phone," then open a terminal and type: iwconfig

If bnep's there, what's it's status to the right?

You may still need an initial routine.

Bnep0 is treated as an Ethernet interface, NOT a WiFi interface, even though it's over Bluetooth.

Run: ifconfig -a bnep0

Activate bnep0 the same way you would activate eth0, depending on your connection manager.

I cant understand what are you guys doing how to edit that line starting with dbus-send ??

Semme wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 8:50 pm

Say, after you added your phone's BT addy and saved, hit "Tether to Phone," then open a terminal and type: iwconfig

If bnep's there, what's it's status to the right?

You may still need an initial routine.

bnep0 is not there

I read the first part here then got bnep0 after running the example session that follows.

You need to allow a little time after the scan and pair commands, then Tether to Phone.

Now open a shell and run rcrsn51's command.

Oh, and run "rfkill" to make sure nothing's blocked.

Hi sorry i forgot to update but this have been solved long ago

I followed this guide

You need to edit the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/bluetooth.conf and edit the jankyBT configuration file like dbus-send --system --type=method_call --dest=org.bluez /org/bluez/hci0/dev_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX org.bluez.Network1.Connect string:'nap' where where XX represents the Bluetooth MAC address of your smartphone but before that you should do pair XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX and trust XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

Then open JankyBT and just click on tether to phone and make sure your bluetooth tethering is enabled and you are good to go