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Date:      Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:07:50 -0700
From:      Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net>
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Palm sync over bluetooth?
Message-ID:  <42D57496.2050102@savvis.net>
In-Reply-To: <42D55D5D.8030604@centtech.com>
References:  <42D558B3.1060603@centtech.com> <42D55B3D.50605@savvis.net> <42D55D5D.8030604@centtech.com>

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Eric,

>>> Does anyone have a cookbook, or howto on this?  I think I'm missing a 
>>> piece somewhere..
>>
>> depends on what do you mean by "sync" :) intelligent sync, i.e 
>> something like syncml etc. is not supported at the moment. its not 
>> really a bluetooth fault, its just no one wrote a tool (or at least i 
>> do not know of any) that properly does syncml over obex over bluetooth 
>> (or whatever palm supports). i'd like to add syncml support to 
>> obexapp(1), but not have much free time at the moment.
>>
>> it should be possible to transfer files/etc. from/to palm using obex 
>> with obexapp(1) from ports (comms/obexapp).
> 
> :) ok, I'll try to state more clearly..
> 
> I'd like to get my palm t5 to sync (using the 'hotsync' in the palm) 
> over bluetooth, instead of serial cable, or even usb, using jpilot (or 
> pilot-xfer which jpilot uses I believe).  pilot-xfer can use a serial 
> port (/dev/something) or network (net:any for ip).
> 
> I was thinking that since my palm supports syncing over bluetooth (uses 
> it like a serial port), I should be able to make my FreeBSD box connect 
> the bluetooth to a pseudo tty device, which I could then have pilot-xfer 
> use.  Does this seem reasonable?

man rfcomm_sppd(1)

thanks,
max



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