[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Bluetooth OBEX interface

[From: Florian Boor]

Hello,

Johan Hedberg wrote:

> We have osso-gwobex (I'm not sure if it's part of maemo yet, but at
> least it's licenced under LGPL). gwobex is a higher level abstraction
> library on top of openobex. Currently it supports only client side
> functionality (File Transfer and Object Push). E.g. our GnomeVFS OBEX
> module uses this library.

Very nice, this sounds useful...

> The idea is that you would ask btcond (from osso-gwconnect package; not
> sure if that is part of maemo yet either) for the RFCOMM device node to
> use using D-BUS and then pass that device to gwobex. There are two
> method calls provided by btcond for this: rfcomm_connect and
> rfcomm_disconnect (com.nokia.btcond service, com.nokia.btcond.request
> interface).

I don't think these tools are included at the moment, but i hope someone feels
responsible for this task now :-) It would be really nice to have a simple and
documented interface to use OBEX from applications directly. But the GnomeVFS
OBEX module could be useful for this task too.

Greetings

Florian

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