From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ users <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] hcid.conf multiple dongles
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:59:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164178798.23477.23.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4563C044.3030200@comcast.net>
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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2006-11-22 3:13 [Bluez-users] hcid.conf multiple dongles dave sailer
2006-11-22 6:59 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2006-11-22 12:44 ` Dave sailer
2006-11-22 23:29 ` dave sailer
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