Palm sync over bluetooth?

Pav Lucistnik pav at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 13 20:45:00 GMT 2005


Eric Anderson píše v st 13. 07. 2005 v 15:41 -0500:
> 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.

That's exactly how it is with serial and USB - computer connects to
Palm, then you start Hotsync application on Palm.


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