Bluetooth successful file transfer

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005

I tried applying my bluetooth knowledge so far to a Yellowdog 4.0 laptop and was able to send pictures from my phone via bluetooth to the laptop. Here is the configuration:

[rday@bobo rday]$ rpm -qa | grep blue
bluez-hcidump-1.8-1
bluez-bluefw-1.0-4
bluez-utils-2.7-3
bluez-libs-2.7-1
gnome-bluetooth-0.4.1-8
bluez-pin-0.23-1
[rday@bobo rday]$ cat /etc/yellowdog-release
Yellow Dog Linux release 4.0 (Orion)

The only local configuration I did was to change the device name that the bluetooth dongle in the laptop uses to advertise itself. Then I used bluefw to “load the firmware”, whatever that means. And then started the bluetooth service. The pin-helper said that it failed, but the phone and laptop were able to pair successfully anyway. And when I used the phone to examine the advertised services available on the laptop, it reported file transfer and synchronization. Cool.

On Yellowdog, even Nautilus was able to understand “bluetooth:///” as a file path. But it didn’t see my phone. I’ll have to poke at that more.

After the devices were paired, I could start a transfer from the phone and send pictures which magically appeared in my home directory on the laptop.