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#381
Originally Posted by qole View Post
This is a bit weird, I know, but please don't refer to BlueMaemo as BM in any 'official' documents.

In English, BM is the commonly used term (especially in medical contexts) for 'bowel movement', and many native speakers will immediately read 'poop' when you write BM...
Eeheh, thanks Qole, didn't know.
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#382
Originally Posted by mfortner View Post
I tried deleting all devices from the BT prefs. Then I trashed these:
com.apple.Bluetooth.plist
com.BluetoothFileExchange.plist
Shutdown, started, reset PRAM.
For those going to more extreme lengths to get bluemaemo working with your Mac, I may have some good news. I seemed to have found a way that should work on any Mac that I've tested (10.5.6 or higher). A simple edit to the config file(s) is all that has to be done.

Follow the same setup tutorial you have found in this thread. Just make sure you have sucessfully created a profile with

Type:Combo
Services:BlueZ HID mouse & Keyboard.

Now to get around that "waiting for connection..." screen. Using emelFM2 (or any other editor of your choice), navigate to "/etc/bluemaemo/". You'll need to edit or create the "known_devices.cfg" file by entering your mac address and name of your bluetooth device (found in system profiler). It should be in this format:

xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx=Your Device Name

Save the file then go into Bluemaemo and choose "reconnect". Tap your bluetooth name and address half a dozen times until it lights up green. DONE!

Now thank Valério for his great work...and politely ask him if he can add option and command keys to the keyboard
 

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#383
I cannot thank jjstewart enough. After following his instructions I saw a bright light and heard angels singing.
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#384
Originally Posted by jjstewart View Post
For those going to more extreme lengths to get bluemaemo working with your Mac, I may have some good news. I seemed to have found a way that should work on any Mac that I've tested (10.5.6 or higher). A simple edit to the config file(s) is all that has to be done.

Follow the same setup tutorial you have found in this thread. Just make sure you have sucessfully created a profile with

Type:Combo
Services:BlueZ HID mouse & Keyboard.

Now to get around that "waiting for connection..." screen. Using emelFM2 (or any other editor of your choice), navigate to "/etc/bluemaemo/". You'll need to edit or create the "known_devices.cfg" file by entering your mac address and name of your bluetooth device (found in system profiler). It should be in this format:

xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx=Your Device Name

Save the file then go into Bluemaemo and choose "reconnect". Tap your bluetooth name and address half a dozen times until it lights up green. DONE!
Good news !!! And the reconnect works after this hack ?
I can probably make a custom interface to connect to a particular given bt-address.

Originally Posted by jjstewart View Post
Now thank Valério for his great work...and politely ask him if he can add option and command keys to the keyboard
Is there any key in the BlueMaemo virtual keyboard that the Mac users don't need ? (Ctrl, alt,...)

Thanks!!!
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Originally Posted by VDVsx View Post
Good news !!! And the reconnect works after this hack ?
I can probably make a custom interface to connect to a particular given bt-address.
The reconnect always works on the second try, but auto connect and a manual reconnect doesn't always work the first time around.


Originally Posted by VDVsx View Post
Is there any key in the BlueMaemo virtual keyboard that the Mac users don't need ? (Ctrl, alt,...)

Thanks!!!
Mac's use the Shift, Command, option, and control keys. That is probably how I would order them in importance for me. Shift and Command are used for lots of shortcuts. Thanks for the great app!
 
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#386
Wow!

Thanks for this tip!

One small detail I had to sort out was the apostrophe ( ' vs ’ ) common in default name given to a Mac.

I had typed:
SoandSo's Mac mini
instead of
SoandSo’s Mac mini

Now it works great!
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#387
Thank you Valério for Bluemaemo and thank you jjstewart for figuring out how to make it work on OSX.

I'm new to both Macs and Linux so I had slight troubles. emelFM2 wouldn't let me save changes to known_devices.cfg "Permission denied".

I figured it out with Google and maemo.org: rootsh, x terminal and chmod.

Auto Connect works perfectly. I now use it all the time on my Mac Mini connected to a TV with no keyboard/mouse.

Thanks again.
 

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#388
my Bluemaemo install won't start.. if i try from terminal I get:

~ $ bluemaemo
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/bluemaemo/bluemaemo", line 28, in <module>
import e_dbus
ImportError: libedbus.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What am I missing here?
 
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Originally Posted by claesbas View Post
my Bluemaemo install won't start.. if i try from terminal I get:

~ $ bluemaemo
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/bluemaemo/bluemaemo", line 28, in <module>
import e_dbus
ImportError: libedbus.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What am I missing here?
Well, it seems that you enabled the extras-brickyourdevice-dev repository, the EFL packages there aren't compatible with mainstream .

You need to remove all the efl and python-efl packages, disable the extras-devel repository and then install BlueMaemo.
You probably can't run also canola for example.

Best.
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ah, I see.. yup I've been abit sloppy with the repositories.. sliderotate, easy debian, mer installs and other stuff I probably better leave alone. A reflash might be in order anyway here. Thanks for your answer..
 
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