Re: Question about Trusted property

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Dear maintainers,

Friendly ping on this question. Does adding "Bonded" property to
org.bluez.Device1 make sense?

On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 4:02 PM Sonny Sasaka <sonnysasaka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Luiz/BlueZ maintainers,
>
> What is the purpose of the Trusted property on org.bluez.Device1
> interface? Does it mean whether the device is bonded? My experiment
> with BlueZ shows that sometimes a device with "Trusted" property set
> is not bonded (does not have pairing key stored) and also vice versa,
> so I am assuming that the Trusted property means something else. What
> is an example use case of the Trusted property?
>
> Eventually, what I am trying to achieve is for BlueZ clients to find
> out whether a device is Bonded or not. Using the Paired property is
> not very accurate because it is set to true during connection although
> the device is not bonded (pairing key does not persist after
> disconnection). For this purpose, I am about to propose adding
> "Bonded" property to org.bluez.Device1. Some use cases include when
> there is a temporary pairing with a peer device we don't want UI to
> show that the device is in the Bonded device list. What do you think
> about exposing the Bonded state via D-Bus? I will do the
> implementation if this idea makes sense.
>
> Thanks!



[Index of Archives]     [Bluez Devel]     [Linux Wireless Networking]     [Linux Wireless Personal Area Networking]     [Linux ATH6KL]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Media Drivers]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [Big List of Linux Books]

  Powered by Linux