[BRLTTY] Bluetooth configuration

[Lars Bjørndal]

Hi, Dave!

You wrote:

> [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
>
> For brltty, specify the device as "bluetooth:<device-address>", e.g.: 
>
>    -d bluetooth:12:34:56:78:9A:BC

I tried it with my Handy Tech Braille Star 40, but get the following
error message:

Mar  6 20:06:18 lapx hcid[2763]: pin_code_request
(sba=00:1F:E1:E7:59:41, dba=00
:80:37:21:25:96)
Mar  6 20:06:18 lapx brltty[3229]: RFCOMM socket connect error 52:
Invalid excha
nge.
Mar  6 20:06:18 lapx brltty[3229]: NoSpeech Speech Driver:
Mar  6 20:06:24 lapx hcid[2763]: pin_code_request
(sba=00:1F:E1:E7:59:41, dba=00
:80:37:21:25:96)
Mar  6 20:06:24 lapx brltty[3229]: RFCOMM socket connect error 52:
Invalid excha
nge.
Mar  6 20:06:30 lapx hcid[2763]: pin_code_request
(sba=00:1F:E1:E7:59:41, dba=00
:80:37:21:25:96)
Mar  6 20:06:31 lapx brltty[3229]: RFCOMM socket connect error 52:
Invalid excha
nge.

Tried on Fedora 9.

Lars