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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ development <bluez-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] Cached friendly names never updated when changed
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:05:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39C940F5-0157-43EB-9841-D5B7D35CCBF9@holtmann.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47EA8056.8090500@idlum.be>

Hi Pierre-Yves,

> It seems that once a friendly name has been cached to /var/lib/ 
> bluetooth/*/names, RemoteNameUpdated signals contain this cached  
> name forever, and user is never informed of a name change unless  
> those "names" files are deleted.

the names are never updated once retrieved. At least not via an  
inquiry run. If you connect to a remote device, it will update the  
name. Another option is Extended Inquiry support if you have the  
hardware for it.

The reason behind this is that the remote name operation is too  
expensive if you don't have an ACL link between two devices. And a lot  
of times the name doesn't change so often or it is unimportant anyway.

Regards

Marcel


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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-26 16:56 [Bluez-devel] Cached friendly names never updated when changed Pierre-Yves Paulus
2008-03-26 17:05 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2008-03-27 13:11   ` Pierre-Yves Paulus
2008-03-27 15:06     ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-03-27 15:24       ` Pierre-Yves Paulus
2008-03-27 15:45         ` Marcel Holtmann

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