Palm sync over bluetooth?

Eric Anderson anderson at centtech.com
Wed Jul 13 18:28:46 GMT 2005


Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> Eric,
> 
>> Does anyone have a cookbook, or howto on this?  I think I'm missing a 
>> piece somewhere..
> 
> 
> depends on what do you mean by "sync" :) intelligent sync, i.e something 
> like syncml etc. is not supported at the moment. its not really a 
> bluetooth fault, its just no one wrote a tool (or at least i do not know 
> of any) that properly does syncml over obex over bluetooth (or whatever 
> palm supports). i'd like to add syncml support to obexapp(1), but not 
> have much free time at the moment.
> 
> it should be possible to transfer files/etc. from/to palm using obex 
> with obexapp(1) from ports (comms/obexapp).

:) ok, I'll try to state more clearly..

I'd like to get my palm t5 to sync (using the 'hotsync' in the palm) 
over bluetooth, instead of serial cable, or even usb, using jpilot (or 
pilot-xfer which jpilot uses I believe).  pilot-xfer can use a serial 
port (/dev/something) or network (net:any for ip).

I was thinking that since my palm supports syncing over bluetooth (uses 
it like a serial port), I should be able to make my FreeBSD box connect 
the bluetooth to a pseudo tty device, which I could then have pilot-xfer 
use.  Does this seem reasonable?

Eric


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