BlueZ

It’s been quite some time since I started poking with bluetooth coding, but didn’t understand it much. But it was quite some moment this afternoon. I was trying to study the rfcomm source code, and finally could able to find out the part of the code responsible for the “bind” option for rfcomm. Had a code already for scanning for nearby bluetooth devices. Edited some of theirs codes, added some lines, and came up with a code in c which scans for nearby bluetooth devices, displays them, asks the users to choose one of the devices to bind, and accordingly binds that device. But for that, the device must be already paired up with the host computer. Here’s the code: ...

Just now … I wrote my first ever blueZ code, a simple one though, that too, from an online tutorial at http://people.csail.mit.edu/albert/bluez-intro/c404.html Its a nice tutorial for newbies like me to get started with blueZ. First of all, I needed to setup my blueZ development environment. Since I use Fedora 10, I did the following yum install -y bluez-libs bluez-libs-devel libgdbus libgdbus-devel Also, one can manually install it from the source packages available at ...