# Bluetooth node not working

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/bluetooth-node-not-working/22006>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [20 February 2020 09:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/bluetooth-node-not-working/22006 "2020-02-20T09:59:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Madhumati](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@Madhumati](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Madhumati)\
**Post date:** [20 February 2020 09:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/bluetooth-node-not-working/22006/1 "2020-02-20T09:59:12Z")

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Hello,

I want to read data from a Bluetooth device into my raspberry PI based hardware over NODE-RED.  
I made attached flow , but not able to conenct to any blutooth device or my phone.

`[{"id":"a240c740.e879d8","type":"Generic BLE in","z":"98ab6f5f.fbf2c","name":"Nokia","genericBle":"ed0d3ab5.1d1a98","useString":false,"notification":true,"x":290,"y":160,"wires":[["cf03b40a.b08198"]]},{"id":"cf03b40a.b08198","type":"debug","z":"98ab6f5f.fbf2c","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","x":540,"y":160,"wires":[]},{"id":"49b35b67.3f2364","type":"Generic BLE out","z":"98ab6f5f.fbf2c","name":"Nokia","genericBle":"ed0d3ab5.1d1a98","x":460,"y":280,"wires":[]},{"id":"66ea28b9.859e68","type":"inject","z":"98ab6f5f.fbf2c","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":200,"y":300,"wires":[["49b35b67.3f2364"]]},{"id":"ed0d3ab5.1d1a98","type":"Generic BLE","z":"","localName":"Nokia 7.1","address":"ac:57:75:48:5c:76","uuid":"00805f9b34fb","muteNotifyEvents":false,"operationTimeout":"300","characteristics":[]}]`

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log

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 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/4/0/4092b10e1fd9b798f89344e24049ef61f47f1ec9.png)

Thanks & BR  
Madhumati

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**Author:** ![TotallyInformation](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/totallyinformation/32/31_2.png) [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)\
**Post date:** [20 February 2020 12:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/bluetooth-node-not-working/22006/2 "2020-02-20T12:14:38Z")

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Looks like you are running NR inside Docker? Not sure how that impacts access to BT but it is almost certainly going to?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [20 April 2020 12:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/bluetooth-node-not-working/22006/3 "2020-04-20T12:14:40Z")

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