JMRI Hardware Support - Bluetooth LocoBridge Adapter
Author: Bob Jacobsen
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# Hardware Support: Connecting through a Bluetooth LocoBridge Adapter

The LocoBridge allows you to connect remotely through Bluetooth to the adapter, which then connects to a LocoNet to control your layout.

For more information on the LocoBridge itself, please see its page.

## Setup

On recent Mac and Windows systems, all necessary software comes with the JMRI download.

On Linux and other systems, you need to have a libbluetooth installed. Depending on which Linux distribution you are using, you might have to use commands like "sudo apt-get install libbluetooth" or perhaps "sudo apt-get install libbluetooth-dev". For more information, please see this page, which describes the requirements to use the Blue Cove library that JMRI uses to access Bluetooth.

## Configuration

To set up a JMRI application to use the LocoBridge:

1. Start JMRI
2. Open the Preferences window from the Edit menu and configure the Connection as:
   - Select System manufacturer as: Digitrax
   - Select the System connection as: BT LocoBridge
   - Select your LocoBridge as: the Bluetooth adapter
   - Select your Command Station type
3. Click "Save" at the bottom of the Preferences window, quit JMRI and restart.