[Bluez-users] hcid.conf multiple dongles

[Bluez-users] hcid.conf multiple dongles

[dave sailer]

I have a Microsoft bluetooth keyboard and mouse that has worked well for
some time. I bought new bluetooth dongle (Kensington) in hopes of
getting my palm to connect via bluetooth (the Microsoft dongle didn't
work for this). With this arrangement, how do I control which dongle the
keyboard & mouse connect to? (it seems more reliable with Microsoft to
Microsoft).

Also, the results of "hci tool scan" are confusing me a bit. For
example, I get...

myth1 ~ # hcitool scan
Scanning ...
        00:50:F2:7E:11:F1       Myth1 Kensington dongle4


firstly, this bdadr is the microsoft dongle. Does this normally return a
dongle address? At one point I'm sure it was returning the palm pilot
address. Secondly, this name "Myth1 Kensington dongle4" is old. I used
to have that in hcid.conf, but changed it and even rebooted the box. 
Just for history, at one point I had an hcid.conf file with only one
device section (no device id's). Now I have the following ... (wasn't
sure about the device syntax, but this seems to work. btw, it would be
nice if the hcid.conf man page was more clear about the syntax on how to
specify multiple devices)


options {
    # Automatically initialize new devices
    autoinit yes;

    # Security Manager mode
    #   none - Security manager disabled (palm fails completely with this)
    #   auto - Use local PIN for incoming connections
    #   user - Always ask user for a PIN
    #
    security user;

    # Pairing mode
    #   none  - Pairing disabled
    #   multi - Allow pairing with already paired devices
    #   once  - Pair once and deny successive attempts
    pairing multi;

    # PIN helper
    pin_helper /etc/bluetooth/pin-helper;
    #pin_helper /usr/bin/bluepin;

    # D-Bus PIN helper
    #dbus_pin_helper;
}

# Default settings for HCI devices
device 00:16:38:BE:F1:21 {
        name "Myth1 Kensington dongle1";
    class 0x020100;
    iscan enable; pscan enable;
    lm accept;
    lp rswitch,hold,sniff,park;
}

device 00:50:F2:7E:11:F1 {
        name "Myth1 Microsoft dongle2";
    class 0x020100;
    iscan enable; pscan enable;
    lm accept;
    lp rswitch,hold,sniff,park;
}


thanks


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Re: [Bluez-users] hcid.conf multiple dongles

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Dave,

> I have a Microsoft bluetooth keyboard and mouse that has worked well for
> some time. I bought new bluetooth dongle (Kensington) in hopes of
> getting my palm to connect via bluetooth (the Microsoft dongle didn't
> work for this). With this arrangement, how do I control which dongle the
> keyboard & mouse connect to? (it seems more reliable with Microsoft to
> Microsoft).

the mouse and keyboard know the address of the last user and will
reconnect to that dongle.

> Also, the results of "hci tool scan" are confusing me a bit. For
> example, I get...
> 
> myth1 ~ # hcitool scan
> Scanning ...
>         00:50:F2:7E:11:F1       Myth1 Kensington dongle4
> 
> 
> firstly, this bdadr is the microsoft dongle. Does this normally return a
> dongle address? At one point I'm sure it was returning the palm pilot
> address. Secondly, this name "Myth1 Kensington dongle4" is old. I used
> to have that in hcid.conf, but changed it and even rebooted the box. 
> Just for history, at one point I had an hcid.conf file with only one
> device section (no device id's). Now I have the following ... (wasn't
> sure about the device syntax, but this seems to work. btw, it would be
> nice if the hcid.conf man page was more clear about the syntax on how to
> specify multiple devices)

Feel free to send in a patch for the manual page. Nowadays you can do
persistent settings of the class and device name via D-Bus. It is much
easier and you don't have to edit any config files.

Regards

Marcel



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Re: [Bluez-users] hcid.conf multiple dongles

[Dave sailer]

thanks for the info. Can you elaborate a bit? Regarding what the kb/mouse 
connect to, does that mean I'll reconnect to the last dongle that had any 
activity? Maybe this is a moot point if I can take advantage of the D-bus 
persistent connection. Regarding that, I googled (and searched here) for 
"persistent dbus bluetooth connection" and didn't come up with much. Can you 
point me at some documentation?

thanks again

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcel Holtmann" <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: "BlueZ users" <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] hcid.conf multiple dongles


> Hi Dave,
>
>> I have a Microsoft bluetooth keyboard and mouse that has worked well for
>> some time. I bought new bluetooth dongle (Kensington) in hopes of
>> getting my palm to connect via bluetooth (the Microsoft dongle didn't
>> work for this). With this arrangement, how do I control which dongle the
>> keyboard & mouse connect to? (it seems more reliable with Microsoft to
>> Microsoft).
>
> the mouse and keyboard know the address of the last user and will
> reconnect to that dongle.
>
>> Also, the results of "hci tool scan" are confusing me a bit. For
>> example, I get...
>>
>> myth1 ~ # hcitool scan
>> Scanning ...
>>         00:50:F2:7E:11:F1       Myth1 Kensington dongle4
>>
>>
>> firstly, this bdadr is the microsoft dongle. Does this normally return a
>> dongle address? At one point I'm sure it was returning the palm pilot
>> address. Secondly, this name "Myth1 Kensington dongle4" is old. I used
>> to have that in hcid.conf, but changed it and even rebooted the box.
>> Just for history, at one point I had an hcid.conf file with only one
>> device section (no device id's). Now I have the following ... (wasn't
>> sure about the device syntax, but this seems to work. btw, it would be
>> nice if the hcid.conf man page was more clear about the syntax on how to
>> specify multiple devices)
>
> Feel free to send in a patch for the manual page. Nowadays you can do
> persistent settings of the class and device name via D-Bus. It is much
> easier and you don't have to edit any config files.
>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
>
>
>
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Re: [Bluez-users] hcid.conf multiple dongles

[dave sailer]

Dave sailer wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marcel Holtmann" <marcel@holtmann.org>
> To: "BlueZ users" <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 1:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] hcid.conf multiple dongles
>
>
>   
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>>     
>>> I have a Microsoft bluetooth keyboard and mouse that has worked well for
>>> some time. I bought new bluetooth dongle (Kensington) in hopes of
>>> getting my palm to connect via bluetooth (the Microsoft dongle didn't
>>> work for this). With this arrangement, how do I control which dongle the
>>> keyboard & mouse connect to? (it seems more reliable with Microsoft to
>>> Microsoft).
>>>       
>> the mouse and keyboard know the address of the last user and will
>> reconnect to that dongle.
>>
>>     
>>> Also, the results of "hci tool scan" are confusing me a bit. For
>>> example, I get...
>>>
>>> myth1 ~ # hcitool scan
>>> Scanning ...
>>>         00:50:F2:7E:11:F1       Myth1 Kensington dongle4
>>>
>>>
>>> firstly, this bdadr is the microsoft dongle. Does this normally return a
>>> dongle address? At one point I'm sure it was returning the palm pilot
>>> address. Secondly, this name "Myth1 Kensington dongle4" is old. I used
>>> to have that in hcid.conf, but changed it and even rebooted the box.
>>> Just for history, at one point I had an hcid.conf file with only one
>>> device section (no device id's). Now I have the following ... (wasn't
>>> sure about the device syntax, but this seems to work. btw, it would be
>>> nice if the hcid.conf man page was more clear about the syntax on how to
>>> specify multiple devices)
>>>       
>> Feel free to send in a patch for the manual page. Nowadays you can do
>> persistent settings of the class and device name via D-Bus. It is much
>> easier and you don't have to edit any config files.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Marcel
>>
>>
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>     
>
>
>
>   
sorry for the previous top post. ...

any hint here at all? I can't seem to track any more details down on
this. Looked around at bluez.org and freedesk.org and google - couldnt'
find much.

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