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

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

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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