[BRLTTY] What shall we do with bluetooth passkeys?

Mario Lang mlang at delysid.org
Thu Nov 23 07:25:57 EST 2006


Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

> [quoted lines by Mario Lang on 2006/11/17 at 15:06 +0100]
>
>>True, the device name could be used to dispatch inside the driver...
>
> No it can't. The device name can be changed. Most vendours set it by convention
> to the model of the device so that you can find it, but you can change it to
> something more meaningful any time you want to. For example, I've set my cell
> phone's Bluetooth name to "Dave's Cell Phone" so that I can more easily find
> it.

Yes, but only if the device supports changing its bluetooth name.
The HandyTech Braille Star does not for instance.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario



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