Re: [Bluez-users] Several problems with bluez-utils 3.1, kbluetoothd and a Belkin dongle in Debian

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Felix,

> > First of all the setting iscan on and pscan off somehow works, but is
> > totally stupid. It means you set your device visible, but not
> > connectable. This also means that the remote side can find you, but
> > can't resolve your name. Think about it.
> 
> Sure it's stupid. I did it only for testing purposes. I've mentioned it here 
> just to illustrate that nothing in hcid.conf related to pscan/iscan seems to 
> have any effect at all. (I've "iscan enable; pscan enable;" in my hcid.conf). 
> 
> > > How do I set the discoverable timeout? How am I supposed to set myself
> > > discoverable? Are there new options in hcid.conf? Where is it documented?
> >
> > Check utils/hcid/dbus-api.txt in the CVS. It also contains a dbus-test
> > script that can be used to modify these settings.
> 
> So, there's no way to make my system visible directly after plugging the 
> dongle in without switching to CVS versions???? 

the dbus-test is a Python script. Simple checkout the CVS and use this
one. You need to modify DiscoverableTimeout and Mode. No need to update
the whole BlueZ packages.

Regards

Marcel



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