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2008-01-07 , 16:19
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I am running python 2.5.1 under OS2008 on an N810.

I have been trying to learn Python by writing an application to control a device through an Bluetooth connection. Under OS2007, I was making good progress. Now that I upgraded to OS2008, I can no longer discover devices. And when I attempt to connect directly to a BT address of a device I know is there, I get "Host is down" (i.e., not present) errors.

I can discover devices if I use the BT interface on the desktop.

I know there have benn changes to BT on OS2008. Can someone give me a clue how to do things different?

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2008-01-07 , 20:38
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I had major issues trying to discover Bluetooth devices through HCI; same results as you - friendly name resolution and discovery couldn't be performed (though I could connect if I knew the address...) Sifting through the BlueZ documentation and many forum posts - the general consensus was that HCI had been deprecated in favour of DBUS methods.

Use D-BUS to communicate with BlueZ. It works!
 

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2008-01-07 , 22:03
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Originally Posted by yabbas View Post
Use D-BUS to communicate with BlueZ. It works!
Is there a place I can find some examples? Or some documentation? (I'm good at programming, but a n00b with Python...)

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2008-01-07 , 22:54
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http://wiki.bluez.org/ Almost every page there describing some funcionality has example in python
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Very cool. Looks like plenty of examples. Thanks to both yabbas and fanoush. I'm off to bluez.org.
 
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2008-01-09 , 03:46
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Originally Posted by frethop View Post
Very cool. Looks like plenty of examples. Thanks to both yabbas and fanoush. I'm off to bluez.org.
I have used python, bluez to connect to the wiimote using bluetooth. It worked in OS2008 too. https://garage.maemo.org/projects/pyaxelwii/
Check the source code in garage SVN
https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scm...34&view=markup
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