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.
