On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > 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.
KDE Connect does look fantastic, although I'm not sure the client application
could work with my Nokia 6310i. Texting is terribly tedious using the in-built
keyboard; Gnokii works well over Bluetooth, though. ;-)
As for a Bluetooth back-end for KDE Connect, it _does_ seem like there's been
some work done towards such a goal, although it also seems to be abandoned and
opaque. There's an unanswered comment on a blog post which goes into some detail
[1], and then there's a package entry in the Arch User repository (AUR) called
`kdeconnect-bluetooth` [2].
Cloning the AUR git repository, it seems like the build script (`PKGBUILD`) just
downloads KDE Connect and passes a flag to the configure script:
build() {
cd build
cmake ../$_name-kde-$pkgver \
-DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBEXECDIR=lib\
-DBLUETOOTH_ENABLED=ON
make
}
Gentoo does something similar [3]:
src_configure() {
local mycmakeargs=(
-DBLUETOOTH_ENABLED=$(usex bluetooth)
$(cmake_use_find_package pulseaudio KF5PulseAudioQt)
$(cmake_use_find_package wayland KF5Wayland)
$(cmake_use_find_package X LibFakeKey)
)
ecm_src_configure
}
Unfortunately, getting the Android APK companion application to use Bluetooth as
a back-end is slightly more difficult. More information, if you really want to
use KDE Connect: [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. The developers made it painfully clear
that this is not on their immediate TODO list, as neither of the two primary
developers are Bluetooth users [9], so I wouldn't expect anything marvellous.
Keep us updated,
Ashley.
[1]
https://albertvaka.wordpress.com/2019/09/29/kde-connect-sprint-2019/#comment-21243
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kdeconnect-bluetooth/
[3]
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/kde-misc/kdeconnect/kdeconnect-20.08.1.ebuild#n67
[4] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330536
[5] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6ggb36/
[6] https://phabricator.kde.org/T7447
[7] https://nicolasfella.wordpress.com/2018/07/31/kde-connect-new-stuff-ii/
[8]
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/kde-connect-bluetooth-backend-development
[9] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330536#c8
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