We now have a new Web Bluetooth sample which shows how to read all GAP characteristics from a nearby Bluetooth device. https://plus.google.com/+FrancoisBeaufort/posts/7pLosPyHd41 Hopefully, we'll get BlueZ to work. On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:51 PM, François Beaufort <beaufort.francois@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For info, the Web Bluetooth team is tracking this issue at > https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=611678 > > We would really appreciate some consistency between Android, Mac OS > and Linux platforms to query GAP service characteristics. > > Thanks in advance for considering this, > Francois. > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz > <luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In Web Bluetooth there is a list of blacklisted attributes that may >> leak some important information: >> >> https://github.com/WebBluetoothCG/registries/blob/master/gatt_blacklist.txt >> >> Currently we don't support claiming attribute, which is what in the >> end prevent a service to be exposed, so I would like to know the >> opinion about having such a feature noting that this may lead to >> conflicts such as plugins and application accessing the same >> attributes which may or may not interfere. >> >> One of the service that web guys would like to access is GAP service >> which is something BlueZ don't actually let them do since there is a >> plugin accessing it, and given its name we can probably except changes >> on every new Bluetooth release making me wary about exposing its >> attributes over D-Bus. >> >> >> -- >> Luiz Augusto von Dentz >> -- >> 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 -- 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
