DBUS service support

Hi folks,

I would like to know if are there plans to develop a=20 library/application to integrate bluez and dbus service=20 to control bluetooth connections?

BlueZ provides tools to enable setup Bluetooth PANs. However,=20 an user mode application is not able to control Bluetooth=20 connections (connect, disconnect, assign IP, ...)

I found the Network Manager application, developed by Red Hat.=20 There is comments to bluetooth support, however it is not=20 supported at the moment.
http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/

Is this topic useful for this project?=20
If yes, how can I contribute?

Claudio Takahasi.

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Hi Claudio,

stop cross-posting. I don't like it and actually I don't tolerate it.

at some point I think we need full D-Bus support, but I don't think that it will be me adding it. I never really got fully into the concept of D-Bus and how to program it correctly. However I am not against it, but the core work must be done by someone else.

Start writing patches and post them on the mailing list for review.

Regards

Marcel

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Hi Marcel,

Sorry, I was not my objective provoke this discussion. I posted in both lis= t
to try reach all bluez community members and figure out who are researching=
this
topic in order to share information.

I will contact the Network Manager developers to verify if a bluetooth dbus service support can be useful.

At BlueZ side, search, connect, disconnect, security and IP configuration= =20
functions have be provided by a library. I developed a initial library and= =20
it is working fine. BlueZ does not need provide a DBUS service, only interf= aces=20
for a DBUS service daemon are required. The DBUS service=20 daemon must control all media(bluetooth, WLAN, ETH, ...) =20 This is my idea of how DBUS and Bluetooth can work together providing seamless connections.

Regards,
Claudio.

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Hi Claudio,

the developer mailing list if for the development of BlueZ and the users mailing list is for user questions and problems. Quite easy.

Start working on it, but I think you will need an integration into the existing BlueZ daemons.

Regards

Marcel

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Hi Marcel,

I wrote the skeleton of the library. Please verify if I am following the BlueZ principles. I will try reuse functions used by pand and hcitool: connect, disconnect, search, ...

It is only a initial draft. The idea is provide a library to user mode application controls bluetooth connections. Please validate my suggestions before I start coding.

The code is attached.

The following changes were done:
1. Makefile.am
added libpanz in the SUBDIR
2. configure.in
added libpanz/Makefile in the AC_OUTPUT
3. Added libpanz directory
the files are in libpanz.tar.gz file

There is a lot of chalenges until I reach my objective: integrate with a DBUS application.

Regards,
Claudio.

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INdT - Nokia Technology Institute
Phone: +55 81 21223034
Recife - Pernambuco - Brazil