Bug#477838: bluez-utils: hidd is deprecated, use "input service" instead
Phil Endecott
Version: 3.30-3
Severity: wishlist
This report is based on the following message from the bluez users mailing list:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.user/13828/focus=13831
I had set up my bluetooth keyboard based on the instructions in
/usr/share/doc/bluez-utils/README.Debian, i.e. starting hidd --server by enabling it in
/etc/default/bluetooth, running hcitool scan, and then hidd --conect <addr>. This method is
now deprecated; instead we should use something called the "input service" over dbus. See
the following page, which contains examples of dbus-send commands to do this:
http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/HOWTO/InputDevices
As a humble user, it looks to me as if the old commands were much mmore usable. However,
the bluez developers no doubt have their reasons for this change and the Debian package will
inevitably have to adapt eventually when the old commands change from being "deprecated" to
"gone".
I have not actually tried any of these new dbus-send commands myself....
Phil.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages bluez-utils depends on:
ii dbus 1.2.1-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libbluetooth2 3.30-1 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-2 userspace USB programming library
ii lsb-base 3.2-10 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii makedev 2.3.1-80 creates device files in /dev
ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii udev 0.103-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
Versions of packages bluez-utils recommends:
pn bluez-audio <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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