[Bluez-users] newbie: automatic pairing with a mouse

[Bluez-users] newbie: automatic pairing with a mouse

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

Hi,
I have a laptop with internal bluetooth and an IOGear bluetooth mouse.  The
mouse pairs and works fine after I issue 'hidd --search', but if I reboot
my computer, I have to issue that command again for the mouse to be paired
again.  Also, if I don't use my mouse for a few mins, it will de-pair and I
have to issue another 'hidd --search' to get it working again.

My question is how do I get my computer to automatically pair with the mouse
everytime the mouse is near it and turned on?

I am using Fedora Core 3, if that matters.

I have read a few posts about this, but I'm very newb to this whole
bluetooth thing.  Here is what I've tried so far:

1) echo "HIDD_ENABLED=1\nHIDD_OPTIONS="--server" > /etc/default/bluez-utils
2) turning on authentication and encryption in hcid.conf.  This produced a
link_key file after pairing, but didn't alleviate my problem.

Thank you for the help.

P.S.  Yes, I've read the thread titled 'Automatically accepting pairing from
a mouse?', but the suggested solution didn't work for me (nor made any
sense to me).



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Re: [Bluez-users] newbie: automatic pairing with a mouse

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Christoper,

> I have a laptop with internal bluetooth and an IOGear bluetooth mouse.  The
> mouse pairs and works fine after I issue 'hidd --search', but if I reboot
> my computer, I have to issue that command again for the mouse to be paired
> again.  Also, if I don't use my mouse for a few mins, it will de-pair and I
> have to issue another 'hidd --search' to get it working again.
> 
> My question is how do I get my computer to automatically pair with the mouse
> everytime the mouse is near it and turned on?
> 
> I am using Fedora Core 3, if that matters.
> 
> I have read a few posts about this, but I'm very newb to this whole
> bluetooth thing.  Here is what I've tried so far:
> 
> 1) echo "HIDD_ENABLED=1\nHIDD_OPTIONS="--server" > /etc/default/bluez-utils
> 2) turning on authentication and encryption in hcid.conf.  This produced a
> link_key file after pairing, but didn't alleviate my problem.

you must make sure that "hidd --server" is running as root to accept
re-connections. I don't know how the Fedore Core init scripts are
designed, but in general they should support it.

Regards

Marcel




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[Bluez-users] Re: newbie: automatic pairing with a mouse

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

<posted & mailed>

Marcel Holtmann wrote:

> Hi Christoper,
> 
>> I have a laptop with internal bluetooth and an IOGear bluetooth mouse. 
>> The mouse pairs and works fine after I issue 'hidd --search', but if I
>> reboot my computer, I have to issue that command again for the mouse to
>> be paired
>> again.  Also, if I don't use my mouse for a few mins, it will de-pair and
>> I have to issue another 'hidd --search' to get it working again.
>> 
>> My question is how do I get my computer to automatically pair with the
>> mouse everytime the mouse is near it and turned on?
>> 
>> I am using Fedora Core 3, if that matters.
>> 
>> I have read a few posts about this, but I'm very newb to this whole
>> bluetooth thing.  Here is what I've tried so far:
>> 
>> 1) echo "HIDD_ENABLED=1\nHIDD_OPTIONS="--server" >
>> /etc/default/bluez-utils
>> 2) turning on authentication and encryption in hcid.conf.  This produced
>> a link_key file after pairing, but didn't alleviate my problem.
> 
> you must make sure that "hidd --server" is running as root to accept
> re-connections. I don't know how the Fedore Core init scripts are
> designed, but in general they should support it.

Thank you very much, that did it.  For anyone running Fedora Core, here are
the steps I took:
1)  echo HIDDARGS=\"--server\" > /etc/sysconfig/hidd
2)  chkconfig --level 35 hidd on

-- C
 
> Regards
> 
> Marcel
> 
> 
> 
> 
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