Hi Rafał, On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 5:00 PM Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out how to register a custom profile + service(s) > using BlueZ in my C app. > > I found some posts mentioning gatt_service_add() and suggesting to > look at gatt-example.c. I checked that file and it seems to be part of > "plugins" with BLUETOOTH_PLUGIN_DEFINE in it. > In "Doing Bluetooth Low Energy on Linux" pdf I read that plugins are > deprecated and I should focus on D-Bus API. > Is that correct? Should I avoid gatt_service_add()? > > Looking further I found > https://people.csail.mit.edu/albert/bluez-intro/c404.html > This example seems to be using hci_* functions (like hci_get_route() > and hci_inquiry()) from libbluetooth.so. I checked hci_lib.h and found > nothing related to registering profiles/services. > What exactly is libbluetooth? Is that for GATT client purposes only? > > Finally I started looking for D-Bus API info. > In "Doing Bluetooth Low Energy on Linux" pdf there is a > RegisterApplication() mentioned. I can see that also in > doc/gatt-api.txt. > Is that the new D-Bus API I read about? Is there some tutorial/example > for it I could use? You should use the D-Bus API the documentation is here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/doc/gatt-api.txt You can use as example what bluetoothctl does to register services: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/client/gatt.c -- Luiz Augusto von Dentz
