Using BlueTooth without GUI

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 18:47 +0200, Lars Bjørndal wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Under FC6 or F7, I would like to connect my braille display or mobile
> phone to the PC via BlueTooth. In earlier versions of Fedora, a
> version of Bluez-utils package was provided, that you could set up
> with a custom pin_helper shell script. If I try to use the
> "pin_helper" configuration option in the current version of
> bluez-utils, I get an error message saying that the option isn't
> available.
> 
> So, my question is how I can give the pin code when connectiong if I
> only use the console?
> 
> Lars
> 

Lars,

This is a small program that I wrote as a stopgap until kdebluetooth
gets proper dbus support.
You can (also) use it to bind text-based UI's such as dialog [1] to
bluez-libs.

http://gilboadavara.thecodergeek.com/bluez_pinhelper-0.1.tgz

Be aware that it is built against bluez-libs 3.9 and as such, runs only
under F7.

If there's broader need for it, I'll package it and submit it to
-extras.

- Gilboa