On Dec 31, 2017 11:44, <mortadelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm currently playing with A2DP in Raspbian Stretch (i.e. Bluez > 5.43-2+rpt2+deb9u2). I understand that there has been an architectural > rework in BT pairing, connetion acceptance etc. handling. Whereas in > earlier versions of BlueZ, the script 'simple-agent' was provided for a > scripted (possibly unattended) pairing and connection handling, this > script is no more available. 'bluetoothctl' is the actual replacement. > > .... > > What is the current philosophy behind pairing and connection management? > Is 'simple-agent' still supposed to work, and I'm using it wrong, or is > 'bluetoothctl' the way to go? If the latter, will it ever be scriptable? > > > Thanks and kind regards, Michael Hi, You can use bluetoothctl non-interactively in the following way: # $ bluetoothctl << __EOL__ # > connect xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx # > __EOL__ connect and trust seem to work fine this way, but pair doesn't. If you're okay with using python, checkout this library: https://github.com/nullp0tr/bluew. I'm also planning to add a non-interactive bluetoothctl alternative to it, but you can easily write a 3 liner with it that does what you need (disclaimer: I wrote it). > My problem with 'bluetoothctl' is that, due to its interactive > character, it is hard to impossible to use in scripts. 'simple-agent' > (the previous version), however, seems to have become somewhat > unpredictable in current Bluez. I haven't managed to implement a > consistent and predictable flow of pairing -set trust - connect anymore > with 'simple-agent'. Typically (but not consistently), the pairing would > not be set to 'Trusted=true'. Overall simple-agent should still work. Examples/code snippets of your current 'flow', and the errors returned would help in finding the problem. Cheers, Ahmed Alsharif. -- 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
