Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:56:47 -0800 From: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net> To: Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net> Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: apple bluetooth keyboard Message-ID: <440DF38F.7020707@savvis.net> In-Reply-To: <1141761895.037384.5308.nullmailer@galant.ukfsn.org> References: <440DCFF0.6090809@savvis.net> <1141761895.037384.5308.nullmailer@galant.ukfsn.org>
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Iain,
>>i now own apple bluetooth keyboard. i had a minute to spare and tried
>>bthidd(8) and bthidcontrol(8) with the most recent changes by Markus Brueffer.
>>
>>i'm very pleased to say that apple bluetooth keyboards almost works. in fact,
>>i'm typing this email using apple bluetooth keyboard.
>
> Max, this is excellent news because mine arrived friday and I am about to
> start working on HID support for NetBSD. Mostly this means porting bthidd
> and bthidcontrol though we have wscons/wsmux here which I hope means I can
> inject events already.
yes, i think it should be pretty straight forward on netbsd. many people
wanted to have wscons/wsmux in freebsd as well.
>>another minor issue, which has nothing to do with, bthidd(8) or
>>bthidcontrol(8), is pairing procedure. it is not very user friendly, because
>>there is no indication as to when user should type pin code on the keyboard.
>>this can be addresses by teaching hcsecd(8) to use external processes to
>>obtain pin codes. hcsecd(8) could call external process that will display
>>dialog to the user and request pin code.
>
> How do bluez/linux manage this? I have seen mention of a 'bluepin'
> application but have no idea how it works..
well, i do not really know about {gnome|kde}bluetooth. linux used to
have (and maybe still is) hcid daemon that would answer pin code
requests. hcid would call external process (i.e. bluepin) and use simple
stdin/stdout redirection to get pin from it. bluepin was/is essentially
a python script that displays X dialog window with pin input box and
some buttons and waits for user to enter a pin code. bluepin prints pin
code on stdout, hcid gets it and sends pin code reply.
thanks,
max
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