Talk:Bluetooth mouse

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Latest comment: 9 September 2014 by Agent0 in topic Discussion 2

Deprecated HOWTO

It seems that the hidd daemon is no longer in development. In the bluez sources, it is placed in the "compat" directory, but likely doesn't fully works as expected. At least, I was unable to setup a bluetooth mouse (with automatic reconnection) following this guide. In particular, it recomends:

# Arguments to hidd
HIDD_OPTIONS="--connect <enter here your bluetooth mouse address>"

But the connect option is not used by hidd daemon when the -server switch is in place (/etc/rc.d/bluetooth always adds such switch).

The BlueZ wiki is not reachable (not even using Google), the www.bluez.org lacks documentation, the search doesn't returns anything, the mailing list seems not available. Anyway there are plenty of references in the net:

Please keep in mind that whenever hcid or pand or hidd are mentioned it means that instructions are applicable only to bluez3 systems which is deprecated ages ago. Modern bluez4 uses only one daemon - bluetoothd and you are supposed to use dbus api directly to configure it. For pairing from command line use simple-agent script. Openmoko wiki

Or:

Debian bug listings

By the moment, I have prepared a alternate guide using the new method:

Bluetooth mouse manual configuration

And I think that this HOWTO needs at least to clarify that the method is only recomendable for old bluez versions.

—This unsigned comment is by Cgarcia (talk) 02:08, 26 June 2010‎ (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!Reply[reply]

Discussion 2

I think we need some corrections.

  • In Bluez5 instructions, tip says to Ensure that the bluetooth daemon is started before continuing. But there is not information on how to ensure it.
  • In example there is Controller <cmac> BlueZ 5.5 [default], but for me, it is like Controller <cmac> <hostname> [default]
  • In Bluez 4 there are instructions on how to probe kernel modules. I thought that is restricted.
  • In Bluez 4 there are outdated instructions for sysvinit. Can anybody remake them for systemd ?
  • There are not instructions on how to Connecting the mouse at startup for Bluez 5
  • Finally, what about merging with Bluetooth mouse configuration and deletion of that?
  • Why it is spoken about some versions (3.11 and 3.32) as current? I think that is wrong.

Agent0 (talk) 20:08, 9 September 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I have changed all linkes, linking to Bluetooth Mouse with links to Bluetooth mouse. Is it possible to delete Bluetooth Mouse page, due to it is no needed anymore? Agent0 (talk) 20:31, 9 September 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]

The Bluetooth Mouse redirect should stay as it might still be linked from external sites from before the page was moved to Bluetooth mouse. -- Lahwaacz (talk) 21:01, 9 September 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Ok, I understand that. Agent0 (talk) 21:57, 9 September 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]