Palm sync over bluetooth?

[Eric Anderson]

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?
> 
> 
> man rfcomm_sppd(1)

 From the man page, I was under the impression that would allow me to do 
the opposite.  For instance, connect to another computer's serial device 
over bluetooth, instead of the palm connecting to the computer.

Eric





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