Re: [Bluez-devel] New Serial DBus API - how to choose dongle used?

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Pierre-Yves,

> Since bluez-utils v3.10, the new Serial API is included, and the 
> previous RFCOMM API has been removed. The first semms to functionnaly 
> replace the latter.
> 
> If I'm right, some calls previously done in the RFCOMM hierarchy now 
> have to be done in the Serial one. For some of them, changes look like this:
> 
> RFCOMM: String Connect(String address, String service);
> Serial: String ConnectService(String address, String pattern);
> 
> RFCOMM: String ConnectByChannel(String address, byte channel);
> Serial: No equivalent so far

simply use ConnectService(<bdaddr>, channel). The pattern matching works
the that if you give a decimal number that it connects to the specified
channel.

> RFCOMM: void Disconnect(String device);
> Serial: void DisconnectService(String device);
> 
> RFCOMM: void CancelConnect(String address, String service);
> Serial: void CancelConnectService(String address, String pattern);
> 
> Apart for the missing "ConnectByChannel", it seems looks indeed very 
> similar.

It is fully compatible.

> But there is somethig different: object path for RFCOMM was 
> /org/bluez/{hci0,hci1,...} (eg. one RFCOMM object for each physical 
> Adapter). But according to the doc, object path for Serial is 
> /org/bluez/serial (eg, IIUC one single Manager).
> 
> So, my question: how do I choose which dongle to use to perform the 
> connection with the new implementation, in case several are connected to 
> the system?

We don't support this. At least not yet. At some point, we might have
additional methods that let you choose a source address. However that is
not our priority at the moment.

Regards

Marcel



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