[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] networking questions & requests

[From: Marcel Holtmann]

Hi Johan,

> > Currently, user level applications are not allowed to control
> > bluetooth connections or search for services.
> 
> You might be interested in the functionality provided by osso-bttools
> and osso-gwconnect packages. osso-bttols provides tools for doing e.g. 
> bluetooth pairing and handling of link-keys. osso-gwconnect provides
> D-BUS interfaces for Bluetooth search (inquiry), SDP and creating RFCOMM
> connections (such as dialup or file transfer). All of this is accessible
> by user applications using the system D-BUS (actually the link key
> editor, btlk, only has a command line interface, but a D-BUS interface
> could easily be added to it as well).

I hope you are aware of that the storage format and its location of the
link keys are changed starting with the bluez-utils-2.16 release.

Regards

Marcel