Comments on: Bluetooth Console

By: giorgia

giorgia — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:05:00 +0000

Hi, I have a problem with btconsole.py script. I work on linux machine with an usb-bluetooth key and a 6600 with PythonForSeries60.SIS (from PythonForSeries60_for_2ndEd_SIS.zip). I can use bluetooth with bluez lib, ussp-push, rfcomm, etc, but when I launch bt_console.py from 6600, I got an error ( error: (2, ‘No such file or directory’) ) in line 129 of btconsole.py (in c:/system/libs/):

addr,services=socket.bt_discover()

Help me, please….

By: ton

ton — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:09:18 +0000

I could not get btconsole to babble with a non-English version of Windows, Python on the phone would crash on trying to setup a connection. It turns out that in windows my bt serial port is listed with characters that are not recognized. Renaming this in windows to e.g. Serial port cured my problem

By: Taras

Taras — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 05:24:24 +0000

Thanks for mentioning that this works over tcp/ip. Gnubox + the tcp/ip console work very well. It’s much less of a pain in the ass to setup than bluetooth directly.

See http://www.rlachenal.com/bluetooth-6600-linux/

By: Mayank Jain

Mayank Jain — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:27:23 +0000

Hi,
this is how i did it…
1) emerge -v taylor-uucp #for cu utility & i’m using gentoo!
2) rfcomm listen /dev/rfcomm0 1 #as my /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf had channel=1
3) sdpd
4) rfcomm listen /dev/rfcomm0 1
5) in a new terminal, run “cu -l /dev/rfcomm0″

but still… i cannot repeat my previous command…

cya,
makuchaku

By: snoopy

snoopy — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 01:15:45 +0000

>> [...] without sending almost identical files to the phone several dozen times to test them, [...]
Have you tried / heard of p3nfs ( http://www.koeniglich.de/p3nfs.html )? It’s a nfs-application for S60 running quite fine on my 3660 using bluetooth.

By: nedrichards :: Nick Richards » Bluetooth Console

nedrichards :: Nick Richards » Bluetooth Console — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:50:21 +0000

mentation for your Series 60 phone you might be interested in these instructions on how to access the phones console via Bluetooth in Linux. Just a quick note: on my FC3 install y [...]

By: Mark Eichin

Mark Eichin — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:38:55 +0000

On Mac OS X, it looks like you just want “kermit -l /dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync” to talk to the mac side of the bt_console session.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:34:58 +0000

Just a quick note: on my fc3 install you actually need: sdptool add SP –channel=3

By: Chris Double

Chris Double — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:34:40 +0000

I got the GPS through an online auction so got it much cheaper thankfully. I looked through my notes and realise it wasn’t the async notification of the cell id changing that was the problem. That worked fine. It was the notification of the signal strength that was causing the problem. I should probably just leave that out. I’ll look at writing a Python wrapper for it maybe. I look forward to seeing how your GPS/GSM stumbling goes with Python. Location based stuff has lots of potential I think.

By: Christopher Schmidt

Christopher Schmidt — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 01:21:45 +0000

Chris: Yeah, the GPS you have looks nice, but the price tag is out of my range. I’m thinking of the bluelogger instead which seems like a good tool.

I’m going to do something similar: GPS + GSM stumbling using a GPS + cell phone.

Seems like everything is going to have to be synchronous for these kind of apps in python, at least for the time being. However, I think that the Python development scene will accelerate quickly, and we may see things coming out pretty soon that makes that not the case.

I’ve never dealt with callbacks though, so I wouldn’t know how to deal with them even if I had the option.