same too. the new upgrade broke bluetooth system totally, the tray icon disappears even bluetooth daemon is running. On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Juan Diego wrote:

Hello everyone, same problem with the pairing here

about the agent its already fixed in the git repos http://damjan.softver.org.mk:8080/git/arch-bluetooth/tree/bluez

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Ricardo Hernandez wrote:

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Greetings, i write about this right here because i can't file a bug report for an outdated package.

Bluetooth in Arch is in a developing process and for that some apps are broken. For example, obexftp 0.22 can't be builded and don't seem to work with bluez 4.x. I build 0.23-alpha and compiled perfectly. Maybe i put it in AUR but i think is worth a dicussion for inclusion in Arch if is decided to use bluez 4.x and don't use bluez 3.x at all.

Also, bluez 4.29 have some real big bug, it simply can't pair almost any device (not mine at least). That's reflected in the bluez page and there's a new version 4.30 that address this issues. One more time i know i can build my own packages but as i said it needs to be updated.

I said all this because i think that for now is better to support bluez 3.x and 4.x. For example in gentoo, bluez 4.x is hard-masked, it has very little documentation, and the api and configs files change a lot, so for now adding support for bluez 3.x i think is not a bad idea.

BTW, bluez 4.x don't include a passkey-agent (at least not with that name), i suggest to include in the pkgbuild to install test/simple-agent, like is mentioned here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12851?string=passkey

-- Best regards, Li Ye

Bluetooth in Arch is in a developing process and for that some apps are broken. For example, obexftp 0.22 can't be builded and don't seem to work with bluez 4.x. I build 0.23-alpha and compiled perfectly

Fedora also uses the 0.23-alpha version. -- damjan

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 14:22, Ricardo Hernandez wrote:

Thank you Geoffroy, i see the new build for obexftp, indeed i think is better to release the packages sooner than later. What about bluez 4.30 ?

done. sh*t, that's an awful lot of releases! -- Geoffroy Carrier

Thanks again Geoffroy. Any help you need, there is my email. 2009/2/14 Geoffroy Carrier

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 14:22, Ricardo Hernandez wrote:

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Thank you Geoffroy, i see the new build for obexftp, indeed i think is better to release the packages sooner than later. What about bluez 4.30 ?

done. sh*t, that's an awful lot of releases!

-- Geoffroy Carrier

-- Ricardo Hernández ( richerVE )

Hi, I just want to tell you that for some reason there is no bluez-simple-agent in the package (4.30-1), however your PKGBUILD has it For me the same, if you need any help you can contact me any time thanks On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Ricardo Hernandez wrote:

Thanks again Geoffroy. Any help you need, there is my email.

2009/2/14 Geoffroy Carrier

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On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 14:22, Ricardo Hernandez wrote:

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Thank you Geoffroy, i see the new build for obexftp, indeed i think is better to release the packages sooner than later. What about bluez 4.30 ?

done. sh*t, that's an awful lot of releases!

-- Geoffroy Carrier

-- Ricardo Hernández ( richerVE )

what should I do if I need bluetooth just from command line? On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote:

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Hi, I just want to tell you that for some reason there is no bluez-simple-agent in the package (4.30-1), however your PKGBUILD has it

You have probably confused Geoffroys[1] packages with mine[2]

[1] http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/bluez/repos/extra-i686/PKGBUILD?revision=27009&view=markup [2] http://damjan.softver.org.mk:8080/git/arch-bluetooth/tree/bluez

Geoffroys package doesn't install the bluez-simple-agent script. I don't know if it should.

-- damjan

Juan Diego 写道:

and one more question: am I the only one who still cannot connect my headset device since the update to bluez4? you are not alone, pal

1, bluez4's dbus api has changed, therefore, original script do not work any longer (bold part in start page of official bluez wiki: http://wiki.bluez.org/) 2, I did a little search on bluez4 headset howto, no luck 3, it's said that pulseaudio can handle this issue in a not-very-user-friendly way, I give it up since pulseaudio freaked me out (http://fosswire.com/2008/10/25/better-bluetooth-audio/)

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Juan Diego wrote:

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what should I do if I need bluetooth just from command line?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote:

hey, sorry, I just found how to, I will give the explanation if someone else need it: 1. start bluetoothd 2. run this command: bluez-simple-agent hci0 00:00:00:00:00 (hci0 is the device id and 00:00:00 is the headset mac adress), the headset must be in pairing mode 3. enjoy I mostly use command line mode, so now my request would be: please add simple-agent to the package, is the only way to use bluetooth on command line thanks On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Juan Diego wrote:

thanks for the info, however I starting to think that is impossible to make work bt audio with bluez4, about the pulseadio link this one is for the old way to do that (using alsa bluetooth module for pulseaudio) so this procedure now is obsolete

if someone can make work bt audio with bluez4 please share the info

thank you

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Lyman wrote:

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Juan Diego 写道:

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and one more question: am I the only one who still cannot connect my headset device since the update to bluez4?

you are not alone, pal

1, bluez4's dbus api has changed, therefore, original script do not work any longer (bold part in start page of official bluez wiki: http://wiki.bluez.org/) 2, I did a little search on bluez4 headset howto, no luck 3, it's said that pulseaudio can handle this issue in a not-very-user-friendly way, I give it up since pulseaudio freaked me out (http://fosswire.com/2008/10/25/better-bluetooth-audio/)

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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Juan Diego wrote:

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what should I do if I need bluetooth just from command line?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Damjan Georgievski wrote: