Add KISS over Bluetooth

[Matt]

I don't think I see this as an option? It would be useful for interfacing with devices like Mobilinkd, although my current use case is fooling around with APRS via LoRa.

[Weston Bustraan]

On macOS, a Bluetooth device like the Mobilinkd appears as a serial device, using the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile, so you would want to create a “KISS Serial TNC” connection. Once the Bluetooth TNC device is paired, it appears in the list of available devices.

The Mobilinkd TNC3 also supports a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) custom protocol, but I haven’t seen the need to add support for that yet, since it also supports SPP

What protocol are you using for your LoRa use case?

[Matt]

Of course--see, it was on my end!

I got a few Meshtastic T-Beams and have flashed them with this neat project: https://github.com/SQ9MDD/TTGO-T-Beam-LoRa-APRS. So each of them can be a standalone tracker or interface via KISS.

Current code doesn’t interface with IS or natively digipeat, but the eventual goal might be to have cheaper trackers/messaging for events and use QTH as receiving interface.

I’m able to set up the Bluetooth KISS Serial connection and receive a packet from the other T-Beam, but not able to check the TX box in the Connections window.

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[Weston Bustraan]

I think there might be a bug where the TX checkbox is disabled when the connection is first created. If you close the Connections window and go back in, is it enabled then?

[Matt]

That worked, thank you!

[Weston Bustraan]

Fixed in v0.5.9