Hi Bastien, On 5 September 2017 at 18:03, Bastien Nocera <hadess@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey, > > I'm back looking into Bluetooth LE battery reporting, and I'm a bit > stumped as to what would need to be done to add support for it. > > First, I've already found a few old implementations: > > - I cleaned this up a couple of years ago, to try it out, and it spit > debug information as expected. Doesn't compile anymore: > https://gfiber.googlesource.com/vendor/opensource/bluez/+/42bc327d464b1f7c2c73b3fecb2e9a8d3dc01035/profiles/battery/battery.c > > - chen.ganir@xxxxxx 's "Add Battery Service GATT Client" patchset that > was posted to the list in 2012 (!) > > - and finally, there's bluez' very own "bas", the last commit touching it says: > commit b6cb2d3ec320bdfdf1cdcdf750e767d214170efd > Author: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Nov 11 13:08:52 2015 +0200 > > bas: Move code from android to profiles > > This is a place holder until the code is ported to use shared API so it > can be shared by android and D-Bus daemon. > > That last one is compiled, but doesn't seem to be hooked up (?). I > tested this with a Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse SE (the same mouse I > tested that first patch with). > > Is this all hooked up and I'd just need to export the battery > information through D-Bus? > > Or does it need fixing, in which case, which plugin could I use as an > example of what porting to that elusive "shared API" should look like? > > Cheers > -- > 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 I think this should be done as "virtual" battery and reported to system via standard means (upower?). I was wondering it would be done in similar way uhid is designed (other option would be bluez registering battery via D-Bus API in upower if such API exists...) -- pozdrawiam Szymon K. Janc -- 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
