Subject: Re: Bluetooth
To: Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net>
From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/26/2006 21:39:27
On Fri, 26 May 2006 20:06:16 +0100 (BST)
Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 May 2006, Juan RP wrote:
>
> > I have only a question... is it possible to establish a connection with
> > a bluetooth capable device and transfer files to/from?
>
> I have not done any work on that as yet, but I think it should not be too
> much work to make it happen. So far as I know, the OBEX protocol just runs
> over serial links (supplied by RFCOMM), so there are two options.
>
> 1. comms/obexftp - when I looked at it (some time ago), it used direct tty
> access but it should be possible to use the rfcomm_sppd(1) program as a
> wrapper.
>
> 2. there is an OBEX program in the FreeBSD ports tree, that I think was
> written by Maxsim Yevmenkin (the FreeBSD Bluetooth guy) that
> probably does not need direct tty access (I havent looked at that, but
> they dont have any tty interface to bluetooth stack). Porting should be
> minimal.
That sounds really interesting, I have still to try your patch before trying
to port this one...
> 3. on the TODO list is to make a 'btcom' device that you could configure
> to be a direct link to the device, and comms/obexftp should work
> directly then with whichever /dev/ttyXX its attached to.
Cool! thanks for the info.