[maemo-developers] Replacing the standard maemo bluetooth pairing dialog.

[From: Tuukka Tolvanen]

Faheem Pervez wrote:

> I've made a compile of carwhisperer for the maemo platform
> (http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20780). The
> app itself seems to work (from what I can tell anyway) but there is one
> problem with this.
>
> This program works on the principle of default security pins and the
> program comes with a script to do just this. I've added in the
> pin_helper configuration option in the hcid.conf and on a standard Linux
> system running BlueZ, this works. However, on the OSSO versions of
> BlueZ, this doesn't work.
>
> I've tried rebooting, disabling the bluetooth statusbar applet, I've
> tried moving btcond, btsdp, btsearch to another place, I've even tried
> moving the relevant files in /etc/dbus-1 to no avail. I can see with top
> that the dbus-daemon is using a little bit more power when asking for
> the paircode. I've even recompiled a hcid from the BlueZ website (i.e
> devoid of any OSSO modifications) and replaced my binary in /usr/sbin
> but I still get the maemo pair dialog.
>
> So, how would I replace maemo bluetooth pairing dialog with another
> program I want to run externally. Or make the maemo bluetooth pairing
> dialog not interfere so hcid will run the program specified in the
> pin_helper option.

http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2006-October/023815.html 
seems to contain some possibly relevant keywords, whether they're of any 
practical use is of course another thing entirely ;)

't.