On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Patrick Ohly <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Di, 2011-08-16 at 15:51 +0200, Chris Kühl wrote:
>> I've created a script so that users can easily get and then submit the
>> information that we need. It's not perfect but it seems to work
>> alright. Here's the gitorious link:
>> https://gitorious.org/bluetooth-device-id-inspector
>>
>> I've also got a blog post ready to go once I get some feedback on the script.
>
> When I ran it, I got the following question:
>        What company makes this phone?
>
> There was no other output that would have allowed me to identify which
> of my paired Bluetooth devices the script was talking about. I guess it
> should have printed the user-assigned device name first, plus perhaps
> the MAC address.
>

True. I think I had in mind that only one phone would be queried. I
then wrote the code to walk over all devices, though. I'll change it
to display the device name and maybe the MAC address as well with some
text to explain.

> In the script you volunteer to collect the feedback. So you intend to
> stay around? Great, welcome :-)
>

Well, I'd like to see as many devices supported as possible. So, yeah,
I'm willing to take the time to insert the info in the table, etc.

> Should we encourage users to also try syncing with their device, so that
> we not only get "this device exists" but also "it works with this
> config"?
>
> It shouldn't be required because the hurdle is a lot higher (must
> install SyncEvolution first, may change data on phone).
>

Sure, I could politely point them to the wiki tutorials that Dave worked on.

Cheers,
Chris
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