Re: Introducing BlueMaemo
 

BTW, why not using 24bit PNG? It will blend with the background nicely.

Re: Introducing BlueMaemo
 

thanks for that great piece of software!

my bt-keyboard got broke a week ago so i am really pleased not to have to buy a new one. ^^
i really look forward for the reconnection to be implemented as i want to use my n800 as a (and the only) remote control for my mythtv client.

Speaking of which: would it be possible to enable the dpad + escape key in the media profile?
then i could use it for mythtv without the complete keyboard. all keys i need are the dpad, enter, esc, p (pause), m (menu), i (info), 3 (playlists in mythmusic),
then i got everything covered. so enabling the dpad in the media profile would do the trick.

thank you for the good work!

ted

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Yes it will be possible, right now the escape key is mapped to return to the previous menu, but it can be changed. I forgot that the n80o also has a dpad:D
Can you submit a feature request here : https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/?at...65&func=browse

Re: Introducing BlueMaemo
 

For many reasons.

1) VNC is laggy, and resources overhead on both devices.
2) VNC requires networking. With this implementation you can put off WiFi.
3) The user might not want or require shadowing (VNC provides feedback on the screen).
4) You could, in theory, actually put the screen dark and only use the touch part of the LCD screen; not the LCD screen itself.
5) Battery life...

Thats the point. On a NIT, you don't want to have a scrollbar. You just scroll with your finger. Well, unless you prefer to use a scrollbar and/or don't like to navigate with finger. Then Fennec is not useful (right now). Liqbase has the same feature.

If you use RDP on the NIT it is very useful if you have a applications which are made for touchscreen such as a virtual keyboard.

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Umm, but with not having any scrollbar i meant that it doesn't have such even in places where you'll want one :) Like frames or overflow: auto block elements. Liqbase has scrollbars as of late in some places where it is needed.

I don't want to scrollbar to scroll with it, i just want to know where i am - even if it is a 1px solid line. :P

Re: Introducing BlueMaemo
 

thanks for this very nice application!

i have it working here with my vdr pc (console only, running ubuntu intrepid beta) and the N800 using a some years old Bluetooth dongle from microsoft. this box has now 2 bt HID devices (a keyboard and the N800 as another keyboard) as input devices configured.

It works great to control my vdr. Much better to have the small and handy N800 instead of the whole keyboard as remote control :)

One small request for BlueMaemo:
It would be nice to custom select ( & edit the keycodes for the buttons maually) the buttons a user wants to have in a subpage (e.g. Multimedia).

I could help with mapping some more keys (this other bluetooth keyboard i use has all this fancy multimedia buttons i usually use to control vdr).

One more note for ubuntu intrepid users:

The tricky part is the new bluetooh stack in ubuntu on a headless machine :( . There is no more direct connect binary for hidd devices any more (as posted some sites earlier in this thread).

Can anyone tell me how to connect a device now and force hidd mode (if it supports more modes, like the N800) in the console / or what conffile to edit?

To get it to work temporarily, i used the hidd binary from hardy (part of the bluez-utils package in pre-intrepid releases), which still works for intrepid.

I have mirrored it here in case a intrepid user needs the hidd binary. Just place it in /usr/bin (check that it is executable) and after "hcitool scan" found the bt address of the n800 you can connect with
"sudo hidd --connect bt_address"

if you get the "host is down" error, just repeat the hidd command. The connection was established at the second try immediately and BlueMaemo displayed the connected to ... and then everything worked .

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Mine unfortunately is without (XP SP2 with MS BT stack).
So I will have to wait for the next version to really use it, because deleting the tablet in the peripherals list, detecting and re-pairing it again each time is not very practical :-)

Re: Introducing BlueMaemo
 

Thanks for sharing this information, I will contact you requesting some help with the mapping :)

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Can you contact me off forum (private message of my direct email) ?
You have the forum private message disable, I can't contact you :(

Re: Introducing BlueMaemo
 

ups, i'm sorry. i've written you a mail to the address linked on your blog.

cheers,