[Bluez-users] File transfer

[Bluez-users] File transfer

[Lalith Chakravarthi]

Hi Marcel...

If I want to transfer a file from the phone to my computer or
vice-versa, what are the various steps involved?? I mean, what are the
tools that I have to be running for that. Also what is the way to
transfer the data? Is there any difference in the way Audio / Video /
Text messages are transferred??

-- Lalith

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Re: [Bluez-users] File transfer

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:33:53AM -0800, Lalith Chakravarthi wrote:
> If I want to transfer a file from the phone to my computer or
> vice-versa, what are the various steps involved?? I mean, what are the
> tools that I have to be running for that. Also what is the way to
> transfer the data? Is there any difference in the way Audio / Video /
> Text messages are transferred??

A short howto for sending files from the PC to a phone or palm:
http://www.klings.org/nowires/main.php/How-To/OBEX/
(Works fine for me)

And from phone or palm to the PC:
http://oss.bdit.de/opd.html
(Doesn't work for me, but maybe I haven't tried hard enough)

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Re: [Bluez-users] File transfer

[Alex Holland]

On Monday 16 February 2004 10:05, Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote:

> A short howto for sending files from the PC to a phone or palm:
> http://www.klings.org/nowires/main.php/How-To/OBEX/
> (Works fine for me)
>
> And from phone or palm to the PC:
> http://oss.bdit.de/opd.html
> (Doesn't work for me, but maybe I haven't tried hard enough)

For a GUI based approach, try KDE Bluetooth or Gnome Bluetooth. KdeBT's 
fairly new but maturing fast, and handles OBEX stuff excellently 
through Konqueror. Gnome BT's an unknown area for me - perhaps someone 
else could advise?

Alex Holland


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Re: [Bluez-users] File transfer

[Timothy Murphy]

On Monday 16 February 2004 11:04, Alex Holland wrote:

> For a GUI based approach, try KDE Bluetooth or Gnome Bluetooth. KdeBT's
> fairly new but maturing fast, and handles OBEX stuff excellently
> through Konqueror. Gnome BT's an unknown area for me - perhaps someone
> else could advise?

Does KDE Bluetooth use Bluez?
I looked briefly at the kde-bluetooth archive but couldn't see that info.

Also, is it necessary to use Konqueror (which I don't)?

Sadly, there does not appear to be a Fedora RPM.

(Nb KdeBT is unknown to google - is it your abbreviation?)

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Re: [Bluez-users] File transfer

[Alex Holland]

On Monday 16 February 2004 12:38, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Does KDE Bluetooth use Bluez?
> I looked briefly at the kde-bluetooth archive but couldn't see that
> info.

Yup, it depends on a correctly configured Bluez system to actually work.

> Also, is it necessary to use Konqueror (which I don't)?

Nope, you can run the obex stuff seperately. But I like being able to 
browse sdp:// in Konq.

It has kbtobexclient, which searches for phones then lets you send files 
to them, and an obex server running as a daemon, so you can send files 
to your PC at any time and it'll recieve them (with nice thumbnails, 
and an option to choose where to save). The latest CVS versions also 
have a Qt Pin helper, which is certainly preferable to bluepin (which 
never worked for me).

Other fancy functionality includes serial chat, a systray icon to show 
BT activity, bemused XMMS control, and the ability to have your PC go 
into screensaver lock as soon as your phone/PDA goes out of range, then 
unlock on return. Not everything's 100% yet, but it's maturing very 
quickly.

There's talk of irmc sync stuff through Kitchensync, but I got the 
impression that won't be around for a while yet. It would be great to 
abandon Evolution and Multisync, though.

> Sadly, there does not appear to be a Fedora RPM.

There's been a bit of chatter about it on the mailing list. There's 
certainly some instructions out for building from tarballs on Fedora, 
though possibly not on the main page.

> (Nb KdeBT is unknown to google - is it your abbreviation?)

My abbreviation, sorry. http://kde-bluetooth.sourceforge.net/ is the 
main page, but Sourceforge appears to be screwy at the moment.

Alex Holland
Who isn't being paid by the KDE BT team, just really likes their 
software.


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Re: [Bluez-users] File transfer

[Timothy Murphy]

On Monday 16 February 2004 12:56, Alex Holland wrote:

> > Also, is it necessary to use Konqueror (which I don't)?
>
> Nope, you can run the obex stuff seperately. But I like being able to
> browse sdp:// in Konq.

But could one use Mozilla (which is my browser) in the same way,
or is the program linked in some way to Konqueror?

The program sounds nice,
but I'll definitely wait for a Fedora RPM,
as the compilation from CVS seems far from straightforward.

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Re: [Bluez-users] File transfer

[Thomas Chiverton]

On Monday 16 February 2004 13:16 pm, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> But could one use Mozilla (which is my browser) in the same way,
> or is the program linked in some way to Konqueror?

No. Yes :-)

> as the compilation from CVS seems far from straightforward.

It was fairly easy to build from CVS on my RedHat9 box - there is a little bug 
in it, but if you've ever done ./configure;make before you'll be fine.

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Re: [Bluez-users] File transfer

[Thomas Chiverton]

On Monday 16 February 2004 15:15 pm, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Sadly I've had bad experiences with Konqueror,
> and am now committed to Mozilla as my browser.
> I suspect you will find most Fedora users prefer Mozilla.

Konq. is used as a generic browser in KDE - it's a file browser as well as a 
web browser, and each protocol (http://, sdp://) is provided by a plugin - 
there just isn't a plugin for Mozilla that does the same job (yet !) :-)
Personaly I use FireFox for the web, and Konq. for files.

> I used to compile quite a lot,
> but my experience trying to compile with KDE
> is that it is rarely a useful way to spend one's time ...

With a decent package manager (Fedora has yum and apt, iirc) it's easy these 
days - just grab the *-devel packages and most of your ./configure problems 
go away.

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