Re: New property for DeviceFound signals to distinguish EIR devices

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Johan,

> > so I do like the idea of a boolean property. That is pretty simple. So
> > my current proposal would be "LegacyPairing". Since the Simple Pairing
> > should become the default and handles all the use cases right, we only
> > need to detect the cases for the old 2.0 and before devices.
> > 
> > However this has a limitation. We make the assumption that we always get
> > the Extended Inquiry Result. So setting LegacyPairing=True doesn't mean
> > that we are not doing Simple Pairing. It just means that we don't know
> > at this point of time if the remote device supports its. In practice we
> > might not be seeing this, but it is not mandatory for 2.1 devices to
> > enable Extended Inquiry Response.
> 
> I'd be fine with adding a LecacyPairing boolean both to the DeviceFound
> signal and the Device interface. I don't think the false-positive case
> is too bad since it shouldn't happen often and the UI can simply fall
> back to SSP then (which is a potential source of confusion for the user
> but at least the pairing can proceed).

okay. Then lets add a boolean "LegacyPairing" property and see how far
this helps us with improving the wizard.

Regards

Marcel