[arch-general] bluetooth pairing with cellphone

[Qadri]

I haven't tested this out yet, but I don't see why it shouldn't work.

Edit /etc/system.d/bluetooth.conf by adding the following lines before
<policy  at_console="true">:
[code]
  <policy group="btuser">
    <allow send_destination="org.bluez"/>
    <allow send_interface="org.bluez.Agent"/>
  </policy>
[/code]
Then create the group btuser and add yourself to it. Restart dbus or your
computer. You should probably then be able to pair as yourself. As a note, I
don't know if you need the send_interface as well, but I assume you do.

MAQ.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>wrote:

> Dieter Plaetinck schrieb:
>
>> I have a system where everything is up to date, bluez is installed etc.
>> the configs are all pretty much default.
>> I did need to enable HID2HCI_ENABLE="true" in /etc/conf.d/bluetooth
>> otherwise the bluetoothd daemon would abort immediately after startup ( ? )
>>
>
> Your bluetooth dongle shows in the system as a HID device. This allows
> operating systems that are not bluetooth-aware (or even the bootloader) to
> use a bluetooth keyboard or mouse.
> hid2hci switches your bluetooth dongle to HCI mode, so you have full
> bluetooth functionality.
>
> I've never had such a dongle before.
>
>  ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on org.bluez:/:
>> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied:
>> Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.33"
>> (uid=1000 pid=5982 comm="/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/blueman-manager ")
>> interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member="Introspect" error
>> name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.bluez" (uid=0 pid=4642
>> comm="/usr/sbin/bluetoothd "))
>>
>
> This error is different from the one we had on the weekend. Probably
> because none of us thought about "ps ax|grep bluetoothd"
>
>  do i need to be in some kind of group or something? There was no post
>> install message, nor info about this on the wiki page (
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth)
>>
>
> I still think this is some dbus permission stuff, but that is voodoo for
> me.
>
>
>>   2b) if I run blueman-manager as root I can pair (hooray).
>>
>>
>> But actually I don't want to run stuff as root, nor do I want to use the
>> bloatware that is blueman-manager.
>>
>
> You only need to pair once, so you don't need root for now. However, it
> would be nice to do the next pairing without it.
>
>