Re: [Bluez-users] hcid.conf multiple dongles

[dave sailer <d.sailer@comcast.net>]

Dave sailer wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marcel Holtmann" <marcel@holtmann.org>
> To: "BlueZ users" <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 1:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] hcid.conf multiple dongles
>
>
>   
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>>     
>>> I have a Microsoft bluetooth keyboard and mouse that has worked well for
>>> some time. I bought new bluetooth dongle (Kensington) in hopes of
>>> getting my palm to connect via bluetooth (the Microsoft dongle didn't
>>> work for this). With this arrangement, how do I control which dongle the
>>> keyboard & mouse connect to? (it seems more reliable with Microsoft to
>>> Microsoft).
>>>       
>> the mouse and keyboard know the address of the last user and will
>> reconnect to that dongle.
>>
>>     
>>> Also, the results of "hci tool scan" are confusing me a bit. For
>>> example, I get...
>>>
>>> myth1 ~ # hcitool scan
>>> Scanning ...
>>>         00:50:F2:7E:11:F1       Myth1 Kensington dongle4
>>>
>>>
>>> firstly, this bdadr is the microsoft dongle. Does this normally return a
>>> dongle address? At one point I'm sure it was returning the palm pilot
>>> address. Secondly, this name "Myth1 Kensington dongle4" is old. I used
>>> to have that in hcid.conf, but changed it and even rebooted the box.
>>> Just for history, at one point I had an hcid.conf file with only one
>>> device section (no device id's). Now I have the following ... (wasn't
>>> sure about the device syntax, but this seems to work. btw, it would be
>>> nice if the hcid.conf man page was more clear about the syntax on how to
>>> specify multiple devices)
>>>       
>> Feel free to send in a patch for the manual page. Nowadays you can do
>> persistent settings of the class and device name via D-Bus. It is much
>> easier and you don't have to edit any config files.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Marcel
>>
>>
>>
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sorry for the previous top post. ...

any hint here at all? I can't seem to track any more details down on
this. Looked around at bluez.org and freedesk.org and google - couldnt'
find much.

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