On Jan 5, 2013 1:18 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> after you search for devices and paired, did you try selecting de device
and going to "connect"?
>
> On Jan 5, 2013 12:25 AM, "Carsten Haitzler" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 14:29:04 -0200 Lucas De Marchi
>> <[email protected]> said:
>>
>> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]
>
>> > wrote:
>> > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:29:30 -0300 Lucas De Marchi
>> > > <[email protected]> said:
>> > >
>> > >> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Carsten Haitzler <
[email protected]>
>> > >> wrote:
>> > >> > On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:05:35 +0900 Cedric BAIL <
[email protected]>
>> > >> > said:
>> > >> >
>> > >> >> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Enlightenment SVN
>> > >> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > >> >> > Log:
>> > >> >> > e: Remove BlueZ module
>> > >> >> >
>> > >> >> > Kind of broken, with almost no functionality. Don't risk
someone
>> > >> >> > releasing E17 with this thing. Hopefully I'll be able to
rewrite it
>> > >> >> > (or find someone to do) before release.
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> Uh ! It was working to enable bluetooth mouse. Miss it already
:"(
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> Write your replacement during next week !!
>> > >> >
>> > >> > yeah. i literally used it like 2 weeks back to pair my mouse.
mouse still
>> > >> > didn't work as i had to have some script run hidd --connect
btdevaddr in
>> > >> > a loop (every 5 seconds) to make it work.
>> > >>
>> > >> hidd is deprecated for a long time. All you need is bluetoothd
running.
>> > >
>> > > well it's the only way i get the mouse to work. :)
>> >
>> > a bad way as you recently have noticed...
>> >
>> >
>> > >
>> > >> As I said, the module was broken and most likely in your case it was
>> > >> not connecting to the device, only pairing.
>> > >
>> > > did it ever work?
>> >
>> > for pairing, I think so.
>>
>> i managed to pair with it once. but it never "worked". ie - pair mouse
and then
>> my MOUSE works. ie pointer moves around. pairing is pretty useless to me
with a
>> bt mouse unless the mouse actually does what it is meant to do :)
Maybe you are confunding the terminologies.... pair only means one device
is known by you device (the bt adapter in your computer) and they went
through the security procedures etc etc.... it will actually do something
for you only when you connect.
I don't have a bt mouse to test so i only tested with my phone. But Lucas
Joia was using a keyboard to test.
Lucas De Marchi
>>
>> > >> > i was mulling if we perhaps should not be making this work for
the user
>> > >> > as it seems bluez only goes as far as handling pairing of the
device.
>> > >> > making the device for example generate mouse events... is a
different
>> > >> > matter.
>> > >>
>> > >> what we need to do is only calling Connect() on the right interface.
>> > >
>> > > do bluez doesnt do this itself once paired?
>> >
>> > nops, it doesn't.
>>
>> well thats not awfully useful.
>>
>> > >> > but i'm no linux bt expert - i've just muddled along enough to
make it
>> > >> > work for me. though my experience tells me that for a more novice
user
>> > >> > it would be hard and for an average joe it'd be impossible to use
bt
>> > >> > devices with linux. :( at least not with e17 - maybe gnome and
kde do
>> > >> > this kind of futzting for u.
>> > >>
>> > >> wait some time, this will be changed ;-). Ship some bluetooth mouse
>> > >> and keyboards to me and I assure you it will be even faster to get
it
>> > >> working ;-)
>> > >
>> > > aha! so you accept bribes? :)
>> >
>> > Even though you didn't send me nice gadgets to play with :-(, a new
>> > bluetooth module is committed to E. Please check if it's working for
>> > you. It talks to bluetoothd, so you must have it running (systemctl
>> > {enable,start} bluetoothd.service will do the job, or the equivalent
>> > in your init).
>>
>> yeah - its already running on all the machines i have that have bt hw.
>>
>> > Most of it was done by my colleague Lucas Jóia. kudos to him. IMO we
>> > still need some tweaks to the UI, but I've just tested here and it's
>> > working nice.
>>
>> ok - i'll have to play and see.
>>
>> --
>> ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" --------------
>> The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected]
>>
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