Hi, I have a problem with my BLE application on BalenaOS. The device name in “BLENO_DEVICE_NAME” environment variable is ignored and it sets the UUID string instead. Also I can’t see the characteristic that I’ve defined in the code. The exact same code is working on the same PC with Ubuntu 18.04…

After some more digging I figured it out by adding those lines before starting my app: DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/host/run/dbus/system_bus_socket busctl call org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager StopUnit ss bluetooth.service replace sleep 1 hci…

Node.js bleno on Generic_x86 PC

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phil-d-wilson February 9, 2021, 5:08pm 8

Hi @Tovi ,

I have pushed your code to my NUC running a generic x86_64 application, and both the device name and the test characteristic are working fine for me:

Can you let us know the type of device you are testing this on?

Phil

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