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

["Dave sailer" <d.sailer@comcast.net>]

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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