[BRLTTY] Bluetooth configuration
Mario Lang
mlang at delysid.org
Thu Jul 30 10:13:14 EDT 2009
Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:
> [quoted lines by Jason White on 2009/03/04 at 12:44 +1100]
>
>>My new laptop claims to have Bluetooth support:
>> description: Bluetooth wireless interface
>> product: ThinkPad Bluetooth with Enhanced Data Rate II
>> capabilities: bluetooth usb-2.00
>>
>>My braille display is a Baum SuperVario (aka Brailliant) 40.
>>
>>I'm using a fairly recent revision of BrlTTY from svn. I know there has been
>>some discussion on the list of Bluetooth changes.
>>
>>What's the best (latest) documentation that I should consult to find out how
>>to configure it?
>
> You should be able to do it like this. Find out your host's Bluetooth Device
> Address via the command "hciconfig hci0". Then go into the directory
> "/var/lib/bluetooth/<host-address>. In there (create if necessary) is the file
> "pincodes". This file contains one device per record. Each record has two
> fields separated by space. The first field is the device's Bluetooth Device
> Address and the second field is its PIN. So:
>
> cat /var/lib/bluetooth/01:23:45:67:89:AB/pincodes
> 12:34:56:78:9A:BC 1234
Its now the secondd time that I am looking up these cool instructions in
the brltty mailing list archive. Can we maybe put this in some sort of
README, or did we already? I cant find it at the moment.
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