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I have absolutely no idea how to pair a headset. That's the kind of thing I was wondering about. With a mouse or keyboard it's absolutely simple. A bluetooth headset is something I imagine a lot of people are using so if it's a pain or impossible to do on the command line then I can understand why people want kdebluetooth fixed so badly, presuming of course that kdebluetooth will automatically set everything up for you.
Anyway
Try
hcitool cc <btaddress>
This will connect to your device if it is in pairing mode
hcitool --help
will give you all the options
hidd --connect <btaddress>
This will connect to your device if it is in pairing mode
hidd --help
will give you all the options
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@tim
which commands are these? I didn't find a nice documentation for the new bluez in testing how to pair my headset...
Hi,
kbluetooth (haven't tried the new version in testing yet) doesn't work for me either, and I am getting the same error messages. But I followed the instructions here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth and paired my bluetooth mouse easily. However, if sb uses a bunch of bluetooth devices, then a nice gui is much preferred.
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transferring files of course, and something a n00b can do.
Also receiveing files.
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I don't have a bluetooth headset I can use to try and paid with or get sound working on but have you seen this:
http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/HOWTO/AudioDevices
Not sure if that would help. Doesn't really make sense to me but ...
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Have you tried blueman? Its a gui for bluetooth just like kdebluetooth and seems to offer everything kdebluetooth did. It's in the community repo.
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Have you tried blueman? Its a gui for bluetooth just like kdebluetooth and seems to offer everything kdebluetooth did. It's in the community repo.
blueman usable in KDE ? only with half of GNOME :-(
Zygfryd Homonto
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blueman usable in KDE ? only with half of GNOME :-(
I guess the dependencies according to pacman must be wrong then:
python-notify
python-pybluez
bluez-utils
dbus-python
EDIT: I can confirm that it works to pair my bluetooth mouse and keyboard. The OPTIONAL gnome dependencies are NOT installed (the gnome dependencies are optional and only required for file transfer). So again, the packages listed above are all that are needed. I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to pair with a bluetooth headset.
EDIT AGAIN: bzzzz. Scrap that last edit. I'm an idiot and didn't completely remove the existing mouse and keyboard pairing. It doesn't work at all. NOTHING. zip nada.
Last edited by tim (2009-02-08 12:12:44)
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Hi mates,
I'm trying to make work kdebluetooth4 on my KDE 4.2 but it seems there is no way. I have installed evething I think is needed: bluez-libs, bluez-tools, obex-data-server, kdebluetooth-4.0.3-1 and kdebase-workspace-4.2.0-6. My system is up-to-dated and I have tried to run it in both GUI and command line modes unsuccessfully. When I launch kbluetooth4 it does nothing, absolutely nothing, to the point of not even showing any icon in the systray at all. An what's more, when I launch the other kbluetooth4 commands, kbluetooth4-devicemanager and kbluetooth4-inputwizard, I only get a crash trace.
I am sure I was able to use my bluetooth USB device (0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)) on KDE3 sucessfully, but since KDE4 I haven't been able so far.
Is there anything I'm missing? I hope you the solution to this.
Regards!
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@Musikolo
kdebluetooth4 is broken
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@tim
Then, what alternatives do I have? When it is expected to be fixed?
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zyghom wrote:blueman usable in KDE ? only with half of GNOME :-(
I guess the dependencies according to pacman must be wrong then:
python-notify
python-pybluez
bluez-utils
dbus-python
to run it, they are enough
to brose the BT device you need ... nautilus - check it
Zygfryd Homonto
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Hi all, kbluetooth finally works here!
I packaged the kde 4.3 beta1 and rebuilt kbluetooth and ALL works (send files, receive files...) so you must only wait kde 4.3 to be released
if someone wants the kde4.3 pkgbuilds, they are here
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