Re: Sony BD Remote pairing problems with new distributions

[Jim Faulkner <jfaulkne@ccs.neu.edu>]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Jim Faulkner wrote:

> My sony BD remote (aka PS3 remote) requires a convoluted process to get it 
> working each and every time my computer boots.

I just wanted to follow up on this.  I have managed to get my BD remote 
permanently paired with my computer.  I no longer need to to go through 
the process of pairing it each time the computer boots.

The problem is, I'm not sure exactly how I got it working.  I had resigned 
myself to the fact that it wasn't going to automatically pair at boot 
time, so I was playing around with "hidd --connect" and the cakemote.py 
script, seeing which would work best to pair the device at each boot.

I tried running "hidd --connect (hardware address)" to get the remote 
paired.  It said that it successfully paired, and "hidd --show" showed the 
BD remote device, however I wasn't able to get any output from the 
bdremoted daemon when pressing keys on the remote.

So, I tried pairing it with cakemote.py, but got a "connection refused" 
error, presumably because the bluetooth stack thought it was already 
paired.  I then ran "hidd --killall", then cakemote.py, ctrl-cing out once 
the device was paired.

And since then, the remote is working fine without out any need to pair 
again.  I'm not sure exactly what I did... I have used cakemote.py to pair 
the device many times before without this result.  But its nice to have it 
working.

Jim