Feature request: remember bluetooth on/off setting

Feature request: remember bluetooth on/off setting

[papukaija]

I rarely use bluetooth devices, so I turn bluetooth off until I need
it. Every time I start my system (netbook; Samsung nc10) up again and
log in again, I manually turn bluetooth off again.  I'd like
bluetoothd to remember whether I last had bluetooth off or on, and use
that same setting the next time.

There has been discussion about this feature at the following bugtrackers:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598140
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/446657

Re: Feature request: remember bluetooth on/off setting

[Johan Hedberg]

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010, papukaija wrote:
> I rarely use bluetooth devices, so I turn bluetooth off until I need
> it. Every time I start my system (netbook; Samsung nc10) up again and
> log in again, I manually turn bluetooth off again.  I'd like
> bluetoothd to remember whether I last had bluetooth off or on, and use
> that same setting the next time.

bluetoothd already has this feature. You just need to make sure that
RememberPowered=true in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf

Johan

Re: Feature request: remember bluetooth on/off setting

[papukaija]

2010/1/23 Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010, papukaija wrote:
>> I rarely use bluetooth devices, so I turn bluetooth off until I need
>> it. Every time I start my system (netbook; Samsung nc10) up again and
>> log in again, I manually turn bluetooth off again.  I'd like
>> bluetoothd to remember whether I last had bluetooth off or on, and use
>> that same setting the next time.
>
> bluetoothd already has this feature. You just need to make sure that
> RememberPowered=true in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf
>
> Johan
>
>

In that case this feature doesn't work. I'm using Ubuntu Netbook Remix
v. 9.10 (Karmic) and I have "RememberPowered=true in
/etc/bluetooth/main.conf".

Re: Feature request: remember bluetooth on/off setting

[Johan Hedberg]

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010, papukaija wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010, papukaija wrote:
> >> I rarely use bluetooth devices, so I turn bluetooth off until I need
> >> it. Every time I start my system (netbook; Samsung nc10) up again and
> >> log in again, I manually turn bluetooth off again.  I'd like
> >> bluetoothd to remember whether I last had bluetooth off or on, and use
> >> that same setting the next time.
> >
> > bluetoothd already has this feature. You just need to make sure that
> > RememberPowered=true in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf
> >
> > Johan
> >
> >
> 
> In that case this feature doesn't work. I'm using Ubuntu Netbook Remix
> v. 9.10 (Karmic) and I have "RememberPowered=true in
> /etc/bluetooth/main.conf".

I'm running latest git here and works fine for me. Could it be that you
have some other component in your system that's always powering on
Bluetooth?

Johan

Re: Feature request: remember bluetooth on/off setting

[papukaija]

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010, papukaija wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010, papukaija wrote:
>> >> I rarely use bluetooth devices, so I turn bluetooth off until I need
>> >> it. Every time I start my system (netbook; Samsung nc10) up again and
>> >> log in again, I manually turn bluetooth off again.  I'd like
>> >> bluetoothd to remember whether I last had bluetooth off or on, and use
>> >> that same setting the next time.
>> >
>> > bluetoothd already has this feature. You just need to make sure that
>> > RememberPowered=true in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf
>> >
>> > Johan
>> >
>> >
>>
>> In that case this feature doesn't work. I'm using Ubuntu Netbook Remix
>> v. 9.10 (Karmic) and I have "RememberPowered=true in
>> /etc/bluetooth/main.conf".
>
> I'm running latest git here and works fine for me. Could it be that you
> have some other component in your system that's always powering on
> Bluetooth?
>
> Johan
>
>

Maybe gnome's bluetooth applet doesn't read this setting or maybe it's
ignoring the setting completely.

Re: Feature request: remember bluetooth on/off setting

[Johan Hedberg]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010, papukaija wrote:
> > I'm running latest git here and works fine for me. Could it be that you
> > have some other component in your system that's always powering on
> > Bluetooth?
> 
> Maybe gnome's bluetooth applet doesn't read this setting or maybe it's
> ignoring the setting completely.

The applet is not supposed to know about the setting. It's just supposed
to toggle the Powered property for an adapter through the SetProperty
D-Bus method that bluetoothd exports.

Johan

Re: Feature request: remember bluetooth on/off setting

[papukaija]

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010, papukaija wrote:
>> > I'm running latest git here and works fine for me. Could it be that you
>> > have some other component in your system that's always powering on
>> > Bluetooth?
>>
>> Maybe gnome's bluetooth applet doesn't read this setting or maybe it's
>> ignoring the setting completely.
>
> The applet is not supposed to know about the setting. It's just supposed
> to toggle the Powered property for an adapter through the SetProperty
> D-Bus method that bluetoothd exports.
>
> Johan
>
>

Is there a way to debug this bug?