= Using Bluetooth from the command line = == hci, hciconfig, and hcitool == To Do {{{ /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf }}} == rfcomm == The device is treated as a serial port and this utility enables to connect devices, i.e. stuff like * set channel * bind to a particular MAC address Affects file: {{{ /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf }}} Example: The device on node1-2 has MAC address 00:0A:3A:53:D4:CD {{{ node1-2:~# rfcomm -i hci0 listen 0 1 Waiting for connection on channel 1 Connection from 00:0A:3A:53:D4:82 to /dev/rfcomm0 Press CTRL-C for hangup }}} {{{ node1-1:~# rfcomm -i hci0 connect 0 00:0A:3A:53:D4:CD 1 Connected /dev/rfcomm0 to 00:0A:3A:53:D4:CD on channel 1 Press CTRL-C for hangup }}} == sdpd and sdptool == To Do. == pand == The daemon responsible for Personal Area Networks. Example: Set infrastructure mode: node1-1 as the master and node1-2 as the slave: {{{ node1-1:~# pand --listen -role NAP --master --autozap node1-1:~# ifconfig bnep0 192.168.1.1 node1-1:~# ping 192.168.1.2 PING 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=53.0 ms }}} {{{ node1-2:~# pand --connect 00:0A:3A:53:D4:82 --service NAP --autozap node1-2:~# ifconfig bnep0 192.168.1.2 node1-2:~# ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=74.9 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=39.6 ms }}} == A usefull link == http://bluez.sourceforge.net/contrib/HOWTO-PAN