Thanks Simon for your timely information I really appreciate that! I will upgrade Ubuntu to have bluez5 to test this mouse. Cheers, Harry On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Simon Fels <simon.fels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey Harry, > >>> Recently I got a Microsoft Designer Mouse which supports bluetooth 4.0 >>> but it doesn't work on Ubuntu 15.04 with bluez4-4.101-0ubuntu25. >>> Although I can pair with it, I can't connect with it. >>> >>> I've noticed that the Class value read in relevant DeviceFound message >>> is 0 (full message in the bottom), and to my surprise there is no >>> "org.bluez.Input" interface exposed on relevant object created after >>> pairing therefore I can't invoke the Connect() method on such >>> interface. > > > The problem here seems to be that the mouse doesn't support HID but HOGP > (see [1]). BlueZ 4.x doesn't support HOGP. Ubuntu 15.10 already has BlueZ > 5.35 which has all needed things to support HOGP but I don't know for sure > if it already works today. Someone else can give you more details here but > you should definetely update to Ubuntu 15.10 to get the newer required BlueZ > version. > > regards, > Simon > > [1]: https://developer.bluetooth.org/TechnologyOverview/Pages/HOGP.aspx > -- 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
