[Bluez-devel] Developing a basic service for BlueTooth enabled devices

[Bluez-devel] Developing a basic service for BlueTooth enabled devices

[Blue Hammer]

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Greetings,
 
 I am trying to develop a simple service application that will run on Linux boxes and serve ad hoc BlueTooth clients (mostly phones and PDAs) using BlueZ stack. However, I want to eliminate the dev effort on the client side as much as possible. There are many varieties of platforms on the client side and I am by myself who is working on this (at home). 
 
 My first approach was to develep a web service with Apache for WAP enabled  browsers that would run locally on each Linux server boxes and serve WAP pages to the local ad-hoc mobile clients in order to eliminate the client side development effort. However, it looks like for many mobile devices I won't be able to do that. I have Motorola RAZR V3 Java enabled phone at home and I could not do this by establishing a piconet between my Kubuntu box and RAZR V3. 
 
 What would be your suggestion? What kind of client/server platform would ease the work on the client side?
 
 Best Regards
 Hammer
 
  

			
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Re: [Bluez-devel] Developing a basic service for BlueTooth enabled devices

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi,

> I am trying to develop a simple service application that will run on
> Linux boxes and serve ad hoc BlueTooth clients (mostly phones and
> PDAs) using BlueZ stack. However, I want to eliminate the dev effort
> on the client side as much as possible. There are many varieties of
> platforms on the client side and I am by myself who is working on this
> (at home). 
> 
> My first approach was to develep a web service with Apache for WAP
> enabled  browsers that would run locally on each Linux server boxes
> and serve WAP pages to the local ad-hoc mobile clients in order to
> eliminate the client side development effort. However, it looks like
> for many mobile devices I won't be able to do that. I have Motorola
> RAZR V3 Java enabled phone at home and I could not do this by
> establishing a piconet between my Kubuntu box and RAZR V3. 
> 
> What would be your suggestion? What kind of client/server platform
> would ease the work on the client side ?

I don't see easy way to avoid work on the client side. However the Java
Bluetooth programming is not that big deal (RFCOMM channels only) from
what I heard. I never did it and so I might be wrong.

Regards

Marcel




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Re: [Bluez-devel] Developing a basic service for BlueTooth enabled devices

[Stephen Crane]

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Hello world,

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:29 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > My first approach was to develep a web service with Apache for WAP
> > enabled  browsers that would run locally on each Linux server boxes
> > and serve WAP pages to the local ad-hoc mobile clients in order to
> > eliminate the client side development effort. However, it looks like
> > for many mobile devices I won't be able to do that. I have Motorola
> > RAZR V3 Java enabled phone at home and I could not do this by
> > establishing a piconet between my Kubuntu box and RAZR V3. 
> > 
> > What would be your suggestion? What kind of client/server platform
> > would ease the work on the client side ?
> 
> I don't see easy way to avoid work on the client side. However the Java
> Bluetooth programming is not that big deal (RFCOMM channels only) from
> what I heard. I never did it and so I might be wrong.

JSR-82 (Java APIs for Bluetooth) provides access to L2CAP, RFCOMM and
OBEX. You don't get OBEX on Symbian OS v7.0s though. Quite a lot of
phones provide it these days.

Cheers,
Steve
-- 
Stephen Crane <jscrane@maths.tcd.ie>

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