Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth and KDE Connect

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday, 21 September 2020 11:40:36 BST Ashley Dixon wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:44:52AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I should have asked: is there something like KDE Connect but using
> > Bluetooth? Or a direct USB link? My WiFi is served by the Billion router,
> > and as far as I can see it's permanently isolated from the LAN. Mind you,
> > the manual is a 12.4MB PDF, so I might well have missed something.
>
> If you want a fancy G.U.I.  application (GTK+), I've heard good things about
> The Blueman Project (net-wireless/blueman), although I've never used it
> myself.   I assume it transfers binary files with OBEX [1], conferring with
> the BlueZ kernel driverset [2, 3].
>
> $ ash-euses -so obex # shameless plug
> net-wireless/bluez:obex - Enable OBEX transfer support

That sounds good, Ashley. I'll have a look at it.

> I'm sure you've already seen this, but you might derive value from the
> "Device Pairing" section of the Bluetooth Gentoo Wiki page with
> `bluetoothctl` [4].

I have, yes. I followed that method to get the devices paired. 

I was hoping to integrate the phone with my desktop. I had a vague idea of 
using the multimedia somehow. (I did say it was vague.) KDE Connect sounded 
like the bee's knees, but as Andrew said, it operates over WiFi, which is a 
problem for me.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.