Hi Marcos, > I did try btmon, but was only seeing other devices about the house, > nothing that looked liked the 3D glasses, no matter how many times I > press the sync button on the glasses. that is not how this works. The glasses will scan and find the the TV and then sync to its connectionless slave broadcast that broadcasts the shutter synchronization information. Glasses will never be discoverable. > As the glasses were quite cheap, I went ahead and opened them up, to > find it's based on the Broadcom 20730, which is only Bluetooth 3.0 > according to the datasheet: > http://www.cypress.com/file/298211/download > > It specifically mentioned 3D glasses support in section 1.3: > > "The CYW20730, combined with the CYW20702, provides full system > support for 3D glasses on televisions. The CYW20702 gets frame > synchronization signals from the TV, converts them into proprietary > timing control messages, then passes these messages to the CYW20730. > The CYW20730 uses these messages to synchronize the shutter control > for the 3D glasses with the television frames." > > However, there's no such CYW20702 chip on the board, but instead a > Sitronix ST9902: > http://www.datasheetspdf.com/datasheet/download.php?id=948278 > > The description for that is: > > "ST9902 is an integrated circuit for liquid-crystal shutter glasses > driver. It combines a DC/DC converter that generates a specified > voltage level as the output voltage source to the four-channel analog > switches. Each analog switch has a dedicated input control pin and a > dedicated output analog pin. The analog switches can be used as the > lens driver in a 3D glasses system application. 16K-byte EEPROM is > suitable for the MCU-based system, which can use EEPROM as a code or > data storage unit. ST9902 chip is integrated into a 16-pin QFN package > and only a few external passive components are require" > > So that seems to be just a simple I2C controller for the shutters > themselves, whereas the companion CYW20702 looks like a full Bluetooth > 4.0 processor. > > I thus have no idea how this is even works, the datasheet for the > CYW20730 doesn't explain how it would work to control 3D glasses > without the CYW20702 - I'm presuming it must therefore have been > programmed by the manufacturer of the glasses. Would you agree that > means it could only support the legacy 3D glasses profile? > > It would also seem it's BR/EDR only - but should I then still see > output in btmon, or is that Bluetooth LE only? Connection slave broadcast (which is the features used for the 3D Glasses Profile) is based on BR/EDR. 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
