Hey I'm working on gumstix overo/oe so the regular gnome stuff is not available. This system is running bluez 3.36. I can work on updating to 4.x if it helps. I was able to use this simple script to connect a mouse by specifying its bdaddr on the command line. (Device-initiated reconnect does not seem to work, but this succeeded on the first attempt anyway) ================================== #!/usr/bin/python import sys import dbus devices = sys.argv del devices[0] bus = dbus.SystemBus() bmgr = dbus.Interface(bus.get_object('org.bluez', '/org/bluez'), 'org.bluez.Manager') bus_id = bmgr.ActivateService('input') imgr = dbus.Interface(bus.get_object(bus_id, '/org/bluez/input'), 'org.bluez.input.Manager') for device in devices: path = imgr.CreateDevice(device) idev = dbus.Interface (bus.get_object(bus_id, path), 'org.bluez.input.Device') idev.Connect() ================================== but it doesn't work for connecting a think outside keyboard: root@overo:~# ./pairconnect.py 00:03:51:C9:EA:53 Traceback (most recent call last): File "./pairconnect.py", line 19, in <module> idev.Connect() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__ return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__ **keywords) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 622, in call_blocking message, timeout) dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.bluez.Error.ConnectionAttemptFailed: Required key not available also, what should I do to look up a device first so I don't get this on subsequent attempts: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.bluez.Error.AlreadyExists: Input Already exists I'll document whatever works out on the wiki. -- Brad Midgley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html