Status of serial proxy

Status of serial proxy

[ranaldo]

Hi!
I cannot find dbus api documentation for the serial proxy manager, and  
I'd like to know the current status of this part of bluez.
I guessed the parameters looking at the sources and was able to create  
and enable a tcp proxy. I'm able to see it from another box with  
sdptool, but rfcomm does not connect. I'm not sure why, however the  
profile show a channel 0, is this normal?

     Nicola Ranaldo

Re: Status of serial proxy

[Luiz Augusto von Dentz]

Hi Nicola,

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:08 AM,  <ranaldo@unina.it> wrote:
> Hi!
> I cannot find dbus api documentation for the serial proxy manager, and I'd
> like to know the current status of this part of bluez.
> I guessed the parameters looking at the sources and was able to create and
> enable a tcp proxy. I'm able to see it from another box with sdptool, but
> rfcomm does not connect. I'm not sure why, however the profile show a
> channel 0, is this normal?
>
>    Nicola Ranaldo

I've fixed the problem of channel 0 some time ago, so either wait for
4.35 release or use the current HEAD.

-- 
Luiz Augusto von Dentz
Engenheiro de Computação

Re: Status of serial proxy

[Nicola Ranaldo]

On Monday 06 April 2009 16:38:41 Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote:
> Hi Nicola,
>
> I've fixed the problem of channel 0 some time ago, so either wait for
> 4.35 release or use the current HEAD.

Hi Luiz,
using HEAD I was able to share the internal GPS of my openmoko freerunner to 
other devices, thanks!

As I suppose no applications are currently using Serial Proxies interfaces 
with bluez api 4.* (unless some older version of bluez did not had the channel 
0 issue), it may not impact doing other few modifications, some parameters 
used in dbus functions are string and stringlist while I guess they should be 
object and object arrays. And last, I'd like to see a signal on the 
SerialProxy interface or ProxyManager interface to trap when a serial proxy is 
Enabled, to have may GUI apps be notified when a proxy is enabled by other 
applications.

Regards

    Nicola