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It depends on the device, but if it doesn’t have a way to introduce the pin you should just wait.

Splendid! I just removed the old kbluetooth 0.4.2 program and emerged bluedevil on my Gentoo system and it integrated beautifully. My headset was paired within a few clicks (as it should be) and connected to alsa. Kudos!

Now I need to figure out a way to easily switch my sound system output over to the new alsa device, any hints how I can do this from within KDE 4.5?

I’m trying to figure this one out, so any help will be appreciated.

I’m trying to pair a Logitech V470 mouse to my opensuse/kde installation.
I reach the “BlueDevil Remote Device Wizard”, where I do see my mouse, I select it and then I press “Next”. From there on, whichever option I may follow, I am presented with a number (0000 or whatever I may type in) and I’m supposed to “Introduce the following PIN in your device”.

any help will be appreciated

Browsing devices still does not work. I’ve added bug report – it was very long ago… and I’m really tired – latest version, and still this feature sometimes works and sometimes not (nothing happens when I try to use it – empty window and no folders visible at all, after I logout and login to kde again, magically it starts to work… or not).

I really have no idea what’s so difficult there and what’s the reason you can’t fix this, but – this is only what I use bluetooth for, so there is only one thing I can do – switch back to blueman and say, that blueman is rather unstable and not very useful for me. Sorry.

I’m using an Altec Backbeat 902 headset that supports Audio Sink, a two way headset service, and buttons (input service).

Problem is, when I pair with the device via bluedevil, only the headset service connects (the high quality Audio Sink service does not appear to be visible).

With the old KDE blue tooth tool chain, when pairing, it would default to the two way headset service, which I would then disconnect, and then reconnect with the high quality Audio Sink service.

Is there anyway I can get bluedevil to ignore or skip over the headset service? I primarily only want to use the high quality Audio sink service.

Are there any command line tools that can be used to diagnose or display the device topology?

bluedevil-audio yields the following version info:
Qt: 4.7.1
KDE Development Platform: 4.5.90 (4.6 RC1)
Bluetooth Audio Helper: 0.1

Thanks!

If you use pulseaudio you can switch between profiles with a tool such pavucontrol.

i tested bluedevil 1.0.1
Mandriva 2010.2 32 bit
qt 4.7.1
kde 4.5.5
nokia 5800 xpress music

1. browsing with dolphin
- scanning through the folder tree ok
- deleting a file ok
- copy from/to my pc ok
but
-no preview
this is a pb when i want to search and select a photo
- when i quit dolphin
i see the connection between my pc and my smartphone is not terminated
then
i must close the connection in my phone

2. sending a file to my smartphone

if my smartphone is hidden (but registered)
strangely bluedevil discovers bluetooth devices instead of supplying to me the list of the registered device
then
i cannot choose my smartphone
then
i click on “suivant”
then
i see knotify turning and turning but no transfert

i assume there is no connection

if my smartphone is not hidden
then
i can choose it
then
i click on suivant
then
i see knotify turning and turning without any transfert.
this time the progess bar indicate about 98 % transfert
but in my phone i do not see any connection

3. receiving a file

i send a file with my smartphone but it can’t connect to my pc
my smartphone says “connection failed”

addendum
receiving/sending a file works well with kbluetooth

Please, can you fill bugs/wishes at http://bugs.kde.org ? that is the only way we can keep track of them.

Hi!
vlad@debian6kde:~$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 13fe:1e00 Kingston Technology Company Inc.
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0457:0151 Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. Super Flash 1GB / GXT 64MB Flash Drive
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03eb:0902 Atmel Corp. 4-Port Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0458:705e KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

When I try “Configure adapters” :

“No adapters found. Please connect one.”

Debian 6.0 KDE

BlueDevil not found my bluetooth adapter: Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

Hello,

I just finish to install KDE 4.6.2 under my Gentoo. BlueDevil are very very splendid but …..
Where I will find information about ‘private’ device.
I have some user’s on my system and thus all of them see a device of each other users !!
For security and private usage (by user) where I set this ?

Thanks

There are planes for implement suport of audio devices (auriculars, micros, etc) like Blueman?

Thankyou

Alex, hola!

I recently got a new machine and am trying to get bluedevil working, but have not yet succeeded. Below are all the details.

The bottom line is that the software installs, the menus function, the system recognizes the BT adapter, but the machine cannot find other devices, and other devices cannot find this computer.

+ The machine is HP TouchSmart tm2t-2200
+ The OS is openSUSE 11.4
+ The OS-installed version of BlueDevil was 1.02 (which didn’t work) but I have now added repositories and used YaST to install version 1.04-3.1.
+ This same Bluedevil version works just fine on my old machine with the same operating system, so it must be the difference in hardware?
+ YaST reports the hardware as
Vendor: usb 0x148f “Ralink Technology, Corp.”

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance, kind regards.

Saludos, Andy Lavarre
===================== Details =====================
YaST reports:
38: USB 00.0: 11500 Bluetooth Device
[Created at usb.122]
Unique ID: JPTW.tGttqvOhWG9
Parent ID: FKGF.0j9+vWlqL56
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.3/2-1.3:1.0
SysFS BusID: 2-1.3:1.0
Hardware Class: bluetooth
Model: “Ralink Bluetooth Device”
Hotplug: USB
Vendor: usb 0x148f “Ralink Technology, Corp.”
Device: usb 0×1000
Revision: “52.76″
Driver: “btusb”
Driver Modules: “btusb”
Speed: 12 Mbps
Module Alias: “usb:v148Fp1000d5276dcE0dsc01dp01icE0isc01ip01″
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: btusb is active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe btusb”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #36 (Hub)

Bluedevil discovers it at MAC CC:52:AF:50:0D:FE

We have it activated with modprobe btusb
But configuring it fails with bluedevil.

Installing the operating system on the new machine resulted in bluedevil 1.02-3.8.1 being installed. This version does not work.
The older machine has bluedevil 1.04-3.1 installed. That version DOES work on that machine.

I uninstalled bluedevil and searched around for repositories for the newer version. I was not able to install 1.04 because of dependency issues, but after rebooting and runnning yast2 sw_single I now found 1.04-3.1 available so I installed it. I also compared all the other bluedevil and bluez files between the two machines. I have the same files on both. But bluedevil does not work on the new machine although it does work on the old machine.

After all of this and a fresh reboot dmesg reports:

[ 62.418592] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.15
[ 62.418596] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 62.437051] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[ 62.437054] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[ 62.542333] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
[ 62.542336] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 63.295452] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 63.295458] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 63.295460] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11

@afiestas

Done, thanks.