now i know BlueMaemo is now properly ported to the N900 and such, but no matter what i do, i cannot get this app running properly for me.

i've tried it on my friends computer, my ps3, and my laptop, and every time it connects easily, but nothing i do seems to affect what i'm connected to (as if i'd never even pressed a button). All of the threads i find where BlueMaemo seems to be working great are for for N810 or older devices, so i just wanted to shoot the breeze with my fellow N900-ians and see what our collective experience with the app is!

thanks for the input!

ps, i've never actually used the term "shoot the breeze", is it appropriate in this context? :P

pps, it's 3am, i reserve the right to digress!

1. delete the bluetooth phone entry on your pc if it's already there
2. delete the bluetooth pc entry on your phone if it's already there
(so afterwards both devices shouldn't "know" each other ^^)
3. make sure that bluetooth on both devices is disabled
4. start bluemaemo on n900
5. click on "wait for connection"
6. activate bluetooth on your pc and search for devices
(n900 should be recognized as "other" or "hid" - not as phone afaik)
7. pair both devices
8. the "waiting for connection..." window on the n900 should disappear and it should show the bluemaemo menu
9. now it should work properly ^^
(10. if not - maybe restart your pc and try again)
(11. if step 10 doesn't help make steps 1 - 9 again... i had to do it several times too before it worked for me)

well, for all of the devices, it recognised it was a HID, it just didn't work when i tried to do anything. but is this wht you mean when you say to try again?

Worked fine for me with my PS3. I had no issues pairing and all functions seem to work fine.

Obviously it wasn't designed to read keyboard inputs on the N900. that would be real nice, but otherwise I've had no issues with the PS3. I dont have a PC with bluetooth to test with at the moment. No need for it really.

On my PS3 it seems, it doesn't work after you try to reconnect. It worked fine for me then the next day i selected reconnect and altho it connected it wouldn't control anything. I restarted the phone and started from scratch and again it worked fine until i closed the app. I started it up again and it connected but no control.

How old is your computer? I notice after several tries that my laptops bluetooth was the problem. It work on 2 other computers that were newer.

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i'm running ubuntu on my laptop.

first i connected it via the default n900-bluetooth functionality - not bluemaemo (hadn't it installed at this point). it was recognized as "phone" by my laptop and so i only had access to the phone-functions and mass-storage.
then i installed bluemaemo and the hid-functions didn't work at all. (no wonder because it was still registered as "phone" by my laptop and the list of functions wasn't updated)

so i deleted the paired connection on my laptop and my n900 and started them to pair via bluemaemo the way i discribed above. it wasn't recognized as "phone" anymore. it was in the "other" category.

i paired them and the connection was established.
but as soon as i ran a function at bluemaemo on my phone it was disconnected. tried several times via the reconnect-button but i had no luck.

when i had some time off i had to give it another try. so i deactivated bluetooth on both devices. (maybe at that point a reboot could help?! and after that...) started bluemaemo on phone with "wait for connection...". then started bluetooth on pc and searched for devices. connected to n900 and paired them. then the function-screen came up and i tested the mouse. it worked.
(yeah... really strange... but the only thing i can say... if it doesn't work on the first attempt... try again... and again.... aaaaaaaaand again... ^^)

I can get Bluemaemo working fine with my work XP laptop, however I haven't been able to get it working with my PS3 (no visible errors) or with my Vista laptop at home (this constantly prompts for Bluetooth drivers which it can't seem to find)

Same result with Vista Laptop.

same thing with me too, i hope this is fixed soon. when it does work it is a excellent remote for the ps3