[Bluez-users] friendly name in pin exchange

[Bluez-users] friendly name in pin exchange

[Vincent Yau]

Hi:

I have a pin helper script that does pin exchange in my Bluez stack.
The pin script detects incoming arguments and then hands out a pin 
accordingly.

I am working with a device that the manufacturer says has a friendly name 
that is 20+ characters long.  But incoming arguments, as I can see from the 
pin script, has only the bluetooth address of this remote device.  I am 
looking at the Bluez D-Bus API but I do not see anything appropriate that I 
can call during pin exchange to fetch information like the friendly name.  
Is there another way to retrieve additional info about this device?   This 
device is master and not discoverable so I have to wait for it to connect to 
my host.

Thanks for any pointer.

--V



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Re: [Bluez-users] friendly name in pin exchange

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Vincent,

> I have a pin helper script that does pin exchange in my Bluez stack.
> The pin script detects incoming arguments and then hands out a pin 
> accordingly.
> 
> I am working with a device that the manufacturer says has a friendly name 
> that is 20+ characters long.  But incoming arguments, as I can see from the 
> pin script, has only the bluetooth address of this remote device.  I am 
> looking at the Bluez D-Bus API but I do not see anything appropriate that I 
> can call during pin exchange to fetch information like the friendly name.  
> Is there another way to retrieve additional info about this device?   This 
> device is master and not discoverable so I have to wait for it to connect to 
> my host.

the D-Bus API is the way to go. However you might wanna look at
bluez-gnome and its bluetooth-applet application, because that is
handling the passkey requests and also the name resolving.

Regards

Marcel



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