[Bluez-users] Keyboard Device Pairing

[Bluez-users] Keyboard Device Pairing

[Chris Spencer]

I recently bought a Bluetooth keyboard, and the manual says it requires 
a passkey and pairing in order to be used. I'm a bit new to Bluez, and 
Bluetooth in general, so how do I pair the keyboard with my PC, set the 
passkey, and configure X to auto-detect and automatically use it as a 
keyboard?

Thanks,
Chris

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Re: [Bluez-users] Keyboard Device Pairing

[Chris Spencer]

Chris Spencer wrote:
> I recently bought a Bluetooth keyboard, and the manual says it requires 
> a passkey and pairing in order to be used. I'm a bit new to Bluez, and 
> Bluetooth in general, so how do I pair the keyboard with my PC, set the 
> passkey, and configure X to auto-detect and automatically use it as a 
> keyboard?

I tried hidd, but wasn't able to connect. Is there anything else I can do?

[root@localhost]# hidd --connect 00:0D:3C:40:68:7C
<window popped up asking for a passkey>
Can't get device information: Too many levels of symbolic links
[root@localhost]# hidd --connect 00:0D:3C:40:68:7C
Can't get device information: Function not implemented


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Re: [Bluez-users] Keyboard Device Pairing

[Paul LeoNerd Evans]

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On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:15:26 -0400
Chris Spencer <gmane.20.evilspam@spamgourmet.com> wrote:

> [root@localhost]# hidd --connect 00:0D:3C:40:68:7C
> <window popped up asking for a passkey>
> Can't get device information: Too many levels of symbolic links
> [root@localhost]# hidd --connect 00:0D:3C:40:68:7C
> Can't get device information: Function not implemented

Random guess, but that to me looks like "errno" is getting undefined
values and is printing whatever random number of error it happens to find.

-- 
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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Re: [Bluez-users] Keyboard Device Pairing (gmane: message 13 of 20)

[Chris S]

On 9/22/06, Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:15:26 -0400
> Chris Spencer <gmane.20.evilspam@spamgourmet.com> wrote:
>
> > [root@localhost]# hidd --connect 00:0D:3C:40:68:7C
> > <window popped up asking for a passkey>
> > Can't get device information: Too many levels of symbolic links
> > [root@localhost]# hidd --connect 00:0D:3C:40:68:7C
> > Can't get device information: Function not implemented
>
> Random guess, but that to me looks like "errno" is getting undefined
> values and is printing whatever random number of error it happens to find.

I continued to play around with it, and tried using kbluetoothd to
connect. When I was again prompted for a passkey, I keyed it in on
both my PC and on the keyboard, and it suddenly started working. I'm
not confident I could get this working again if I had to. Is there a
tutorial somewhere on pairing bluetooth devices? I didn't find
anything on bluez.org.

Regards,
Chris

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Re: [Bluez-users] Keyboard Device Pairing (gmane: message 13 of 20)

[Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Chris,

> > > [root@localhost]# hidd --connect 00:0D:3C:40:68:7C
> > > <window popped up asking for a passkey>
> > > Can't get device information: Too many levels of symbolic links
> > > [root@localhost]# hidd --connect 00:0D:3C:40:68:7C
> > > Can't get device information: Function not implemented
> >
> > Random guess, but that to me looks like "errno" is getting undefined
> > values and is printing whatever random number of error it happens to find.
> 
> I continued to play around with it, and tried using kbluetoothd to
> connect. When I was again prompted for a passkey, I keyed it in on
> both my PC and on the keyboard, and it suddenly started working. I'm
> not confident I could get this working again if I had to. Is there a
> tutorial somewhere on pairing bluetooth devices? I didn't find
> anything on bluez.org.

there is no really tutorial. And in case or pairing problems it helps to
run "hcidump -X -V" to see what is going on. However with the D-Bus API
you have a CreateBonding command that will take care of everything and
at some point we will have a connection wizard. If I have enough free
time to write all this GUI stuff. I am not really a GUI programmer.

Regards

Marcel



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