{"id":323,"date":"2015-01-08T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T21:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2017-02-27T21:38:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T05:38:43","slug":"receive-files-via-bluetooth-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/08\/receive-files-via-bluetooth-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Receive files via Bluetooth on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default, nothing happens when you try to send a file to your Ubuntu machine via Bluetooth. Pairing doesn&#8217;t help. I found the solution at <a href=\"http:\/\/techareena.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/11\/how-to-receive-files-over-bluetooth-in-ubuntu\/\">Tech Areena<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1) Launch the Personal File Sharing settings, which can by found via a search in the Unity Dash.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2015\/01\/personal_file_sharing.png\" alt=\"Personal File Sharing\" width=\"235\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2015\/01\/personal_file_sharing.png 235w, https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2015\/01\/personal_file_sharing-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2015\/01\/personal_file_sharing-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2015\/01\/personal_file_sharing-36x36.png 36w, https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2015\/01\/personal_file_sharing-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2015\/01\/personal_file_sharing-64x64.png 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2) Enable receipt of files via Bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2015\/01\/receive_files_over_bluetooth.png\" alt=\"Receive Files Over Bluetooth\" width=\"405\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2015\/01\/receive_files_over_bluetooth.png 405w, https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/wp-uploads\/2015\/01\/receive_files_over_bluetooth-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, nothing happens when you try to send a file to your Ubuntu machine via Bluetooth. Pairing doesn&#8217;t help. I found the solution at Tech Areena: 1) Launch the Personal File Sharing settings, which can by found via a search in the Unity Dash. 2) Enable receipt of files via Bluetooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72],"tags":[90,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorrin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}