Hi, I am working on a project to integrate the Sony PS3 Remote to LIRC. BlueZ supports the use of this device by translating key presses to keyboard events. It is possible for me to read these translated keyboard events to figure out what happens on the remote, but the application is more stable if I can get hold of the raw data stream from the remote directly. This ability would also allow for separate development for other special devices that communicate as HID devices (e.g. the WII-remotes). I have not been able to get a hold of that datastream (except by stopping bluez and then listening directly on the relevant PSM's, but since bluez need to run for all other purposes that is not really an option). So my question is: 1. Is there a possibility that I have missed for a separate user-space program to "steal" the interrupt and control channels from BlueZ for a specific HID Device? 2. If not, will you consider adding this possibility? I have experimented with one option; the fake_hid functionality is extended so that when a HID device connects it tries to connect to a unix socket with a predefined name (e.g. /var/run/bluez/fakehid_<vendor_id>_<product_id>). If a program listens on that socket, the data channels will be passed over. If not, bluez will continue as usual. I have a patch that does this more or less ready to go, and I would be happy to contribute further if I can. Other options can of course be considered (e.g. exposing new DBus methods). But I wanted to check your initial views before going into more details. You can see all details about the project I am working on at http://sourceforge.net/projects/sonyps3remote/. The patch can be found in the svn tree there as well: http://sonyps3remote.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/sonyps3remote/bluez/patches/bluez-4.69-sonyps3.diff.gz?view=log Thanks in advance //Carl -- 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
