[BRLTTY] Bluetooth configuration

[Lars Bjørndal]

Reply ty myself:
lars.bjorndal at broadpark.no (Lars Bjørndal) writes:

> 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.

It's fixed. I forgot to make a line break in the pincodes file. Sorry.

Thank you, Dave for your explanation!

Lars