Hi Arman, >>> I am building a GATT service/plugin for the bluetooth daemon and have >>> ported 5.27 bluez to my embedded ARM platform. >>> >>> It seems like the GATT D-Bus API is not quite ready, so my options >>> appear to be either building the plugin and linking it as a statically >>> linked object or build it as a shared object library where the daemon >>> will pick it up from /usr/local/lib/bluetooth/plugins >>> Are both supported? I saw a message from about a year ago suggesting >>> the shared object approach was not the best path. >> >> actually I would prefer if we get the GATT D-Bus API ready so that you can use it. Have you tried it? I am actually curious to hear what would be missing. >> > > The GATT D-Bus API was mostly implemented for client role a little > after the christmas release. I received push back on > StartNotify/StopNotify for an edge case and I haven't come up with an > alternative, so the API is behind the experimental flag and doesn't > support enabling notifications. > > Server role support (over D-Bus) doesn't exist at all. If you run the > daemon with -E, you'll see the org.bluez.GattManager1 interface > exported but interacting with it virtually doesn't do anything. > > The thing is, the upstream review process has been taking way too long > for us and we have some features to deliver, so I'm working on the > remaining features within the ChromiumOS tree for now. So you won't > see any patches from me any time soon. Last where I left off, we were > discussing replacing GattManager1 with a new GattProfile1 & > GattProfileManager1 API, so I may send out a proposal for that some > time next week. > > Otherwise, that's where the API stands :) actually I would prefer if we get this upstream quicker. And that applies to GATT client and GATT server support. I was under the assumption that Luiz was working on this as well. So what can we do to make this go faster? One small detail here. I hope we are clear that "service" in LE GATT means the server side and "profile" in LE GATT is actually the client. The GATT server exposes a service and the profile explains how a GATT client uses it. Regards Marcel -- 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
