Noble: Node.js BLE

ClementMarrast

Hello,

I've moved from Ubuntu to SolusOS. I'm very happy with the lightweight distro.
Nevertheless, I'm a bit lost with eopkg manager.

For my development, I'm using Noble which is the Node.js package for communicating with BLE devices.
The Bluetooth is working very good for headphones etc. but I can't make this package working.

Here is the repo:
https://github.com/noble/noble

The installation for Ubuntu is:

sudo apt-get install bluetooth bluez libbluetooth-dev libudev-dev

For SolusOS, I've install bluez and bluez-devel package. Others are not available.
Then, I've setup capabilities: cap_net_raw+eip
When using getcap, I have cap_net_raw=eip (not '+' but '='):
/usr/lib/node_modules/electron/cli.js cap_net_raw=eip

When I start my app, I can get the BLE state if I am in sudo. Setcap seems to be not working.
Did I miss something ? Is it normal to have this '=' instead of '+' ?

Even if I can get the BLE state in sudo, I still can't scan any devices.

Using Ubuntu, It's working very good.
Do you have any advice?

Thanks!

brent

ClementMarrast It's not running because you are three packages short, according to link: bluez-libs bluez-libs-devel and libbluetooth-dev. The Solus bluez stuff all has a qt instead of libs in name...

,,,so now your question becomes "does solus have the equivalent of these packages in the repo?"
edit: I forgot to say "I don't know the answer to that."

..this project does not even have that I could find a targz or their 'node.' I mean even if you get all these packages I see no program for these packages. Unless you make all these node moves in code like you showed. Also I'm not even sure we have an electron component in solus. I can't even find a folder with that name on it in my budgie.

Walk, talks, quacks like a....but hopefully someone can tell you if this is doable. This was an Ubu-friendly package for a reason.
---Welcome to Solus--there is always a way to get what you want.

ClementMarrast

Well, for electron, it does have as it's a part of nodeJS. I could install it using npm.
As it's all part of npm package, I don't find any targz but I think they are correctly installed.
I would except to have an error if a package was missing, I think I have the package but I'm not sure how capabilites are managed.