[Bluez-devel] newb request

[Bluez-devel] newb request

[Jeff Wilson]

Hi all,

I have about 5 years experience with sockets programming, but I am new
to BlueZ.  I am interested in developing applications using HCI.  I
have skimmed through the Bluetooth specifications (through 2.0) and I
have created a "Hello World" app using hcitool.c (bluez-utils-2.7) as
a guide.

What other documents are available?  Is there a FAQ, man page, or a
central location for API documentation somewhere? Looking at the
source of hcitool is helpful, but it only gets me so far.  Where can I
get more details?

I am looking for anything to help me translate the Bluetooth spec into
the practical workings of the BlueZ implementation.

Thanks for your time,

        Jeff


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Re: [Bluez-devel] newb request

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Jeff,

> I have about 5 years experience with sockets programming, but I am new
> to BlueZ.  I am interested in developing applications using HCI.  I
> have skimmed through the Bluetooth specifications (through 2.0) and I
> have created a "Hello World" app using hcitool.c (bluez-utils-2.7) as
> a guide.
> 
> What other documents are available?  Is there a FAQ, man page, or a
> central location for API documentation somewhere? Looking at the
> source of hcitool is helpful, but it only gets me so far.  Where can I
> get more details?
> 
> I am looking for anything to help me translate the Bluetooth spec into
> the practical workings of the BlueZ implementation.

I think what you really wanna do is using L2CAP or RFCOMM as transport
layers and so better look a l2test.c and rctest.c files.

Regards

Marcel




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Re: [Bluez-devel] newb request

[Jeff Wilson]

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:57:16 +0100, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> I think what you really wanna do is using L2CAP or RFCOMM as transport
> layers and so better look a l2test.c and rctest.c files.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Marcel
> 

Thank you for your prompt reply!

Sorry, I was not very clear about that part.  I use RFCOMM for the
transport.  (It's been a couple of months since I wrote "Hello
World".)  You are correct; I used rctest.c as my guide for that.

My frustration is trying to understand more about HCI.  I'm sure there
is no way around a steep learning curve -- my objective is to get as
fine-tuned control as possible over the INQUIRY and INQUIRY_SCAN
modes.  I want two nodes (with zero prior knowledge of each other) to
be able to discover each other and exchange messages within a couple
of seconds.

   Thanks again for your time,
     Jeff


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