[Bluez-devel] DBUS service support

[Bluez-devel] DBUS service support

[Claudio Takahasi]

Hi folks,


I would like to know if are there plans to develop a=20
library/application to integrate bluez and dbus service=20
to control bluetooth connections?

BlueZ provides tools to enable setup Bluetooth PANs. However,=20
an user mode application is not able to control Bluetooth=20
connections (connect, disconnect, assign IP, ...)

I found the Network Manager application, developed by Red Hat.=20
There is comments to bluetooth support, however it is not=20
supported at the moment.
http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/

Is this topic useful for this project?=20
If yes, how can I contribute?

Claudio Takahasi.


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Re: [Bluez-devel] DBUS service support

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Claudio,

stop cross-posting. I don't like it and actually I don't tolerate it.

> I would like to know if are there plans to develop a 
> library/application to integrate bluez and dbus service 
> to control bluetooth connections?
> 
> BlueZ provides tools to enable setup Bluetooth PANs. However, 
> an user mode application is not able to control Bluetooth 
> connections (connect, disconnect, assign IP, ...)
> 
> I found the Network Manager application, developed by Red Hat. 
> There is comments to bluetooth support, however it is not 
> supported at the moment.
> http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/
> 
> Is this topic useful for this project? 

at some point I think we need full D-Bus support, but I don't think that
it will be me adding it. I never really got fully into the concept of
D-Bus and how to program it correctly. However I am not against it, but
the core work must be done by someone else.

> If yes, how can I contribute?

Start writing patches and post them on the mailing list for review.

Regards

Marcel




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Re: [Bluez-devel] DBUS service support

[Claudio Takahasi]

Hi Marcel,

Sorry, I was not my objective provoke this discussion. I posted in both lis=
t
to try reach all bluez community members and figure out who are researching=
 this
topic in order to share information.

I will contact the Network Manager developers to verify if a bluetooth
dbus service support can be useful.

At BlueZ side,  search, connect, disconnect, security and IP configuration=
=20
functions have be provided by a library. I developed a initial library and=
=20
it is working fine. BlueZ does not need provide a DBUS service, only interf=
aces=20
for a DBUS service daemon are required. The DBUS service=20
daemon must control all media(bluetooth, WLAN, ETH, ...) =20
This is my idea of how DBUS and Bluetooth can work together providing
seamless connections.

Regards,
Claudio.

On 4/19/05, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
> Hi Claudio,
>=20
> stop cross-posting. I don't like it and actually I don't tolerate it.
>=20
> > I would like to know if are there plans to develop a
> > library/application to integrate bluez and dbus service
> > to control bluetooth connections?
> >
> > BlueZ provides tools to enable setup Bluetooth PANs. However,
> > an user mode application is not able to control Bluetooth
> > connections (connect, disconnect, assign IP, ...)
> >
> > I found the Network Manager application, developed by Red Hat.
> > There is comments to bluetooth support, however it is not
> > supported at the moment.
> > http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/
> >
> > Is this topic useful for this project?
>=20
> at some point I think we need full D-Bus support, but I don't think that
> it will be me adding it. I never really got fully into the concept of
> D-Bus and how to program it correctly. However I am not against it, but
> the core work must be done by someone else.
>=20
> > If yes, how can I contribute?
>=20
> Start writing patches and post them on the mailing list for review.
>=20
> Regards
>=20
> Marcel
>=20
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Re: [Bluez-devel] DBUS service support

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Claudio,

> Sorry, I was not my objective provoke this discussion. I posted in both list
> to try reach all bluez community members and figure out who are researching this
> topic in order to share information.

the developer mailing list if for the development of BlueZ and the users
mailing list is for user questions and problems. Quite easy.

> I will contact the Network Manager developers to verify if a bluetooth
> dbus service support can be useful.
> 
> At BlueZ side,  search, connect, disconnect, security and IP configuration 
> functions have be provided by a library. I developed a initial library and 
> it is working fine. BlueZ does not need provide a DBUS service, only interfaces 
> for a DBUS service daemon are required. The DBUS service 
> daemon must control all media(bluetooth, WLAN, ETH, ...)  
> This is my idea of how DBUS and Bluetooth can work together providing
> seamless connections.

Start working on it, but I think you will need an integration into the
existing BlueZ daemons.

Regards

Marcel




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Re: [Bluez-devel] DBUS service support

[Claudio Takahasi]

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Hi Marcel,

I wrote the skeleton of the library. Please verify if I am following
the BlueZ principles. I will try reuse functions used by pand 
and hcitool: connect, disconnect, search, ...

It is only a initial draft. The idea is provide a library to user 
mode application controls bluetooth connections. Please
validate my suggestions before I start coding.

The code is attached.

The following changes were done:
1. Makefile.am
    added libpanz in the SUBDIR
2. configure.in
    added libpanz/Makefile in the AC_OUTPUT
3. Added libpanz directory
   the files are in libpanz.tar.gz file

There is a lot of chalenges until I reach my objective: integrate
with a DBUS application.

Regards,
Claudio.


On 4/19/05, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
> Hi Claudio,
> 
> > Sorry, I was not my objective provoke this discussion. I posted in both list
> > to try reach all bluez community members and figure out who are researching this
> > topic in order to share information.
> 
> the developer mailing list if for the development of BlueZ and the users
> mailing list is for user questions and problems. Quite easy.
> 
> > I will contact the Network Manager developers to verify if a bluetooth
> > dbus service support can be useful.
> >
> > At BlueZ side,  search, connect, disconnect, security and IP configuration
> > functions have be provided by a library. I developed a initial library and
> > it is working fine. BlueZ does not need provide a DBUS service, only interfaces
> > for a DBUS service daemon are required. The DBUS service
> > daemon must control all media(bluetooth, WLAN, ETH, ...)
> > This is my idea of how DBUS and Bluetooth can work together providing
> > seamless connections.
> 
> Start working on it, but I think you will need an integration into the
> existing BlueZ daemons.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Marcel
> 
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Phone: +55 81 21223034
Recife - Pernambuco - Brazil

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