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GNOME BluePhone

GNOME BluePhone depends upon the BlueZ Bluetooth stack libraries available from http://www.bluez.org.

Before running BluePhone make your phone discoverable and use

$ hcitool scan

to determine your Bluetooth address of the form 00:00:00:00:00:00 and then

$ sdptool browse 00:00:00:00:00:00

where 00:00:00:00:00:00 is the Bluetooth address you just obtained for your phone. Look for the entry of the form below and note down the channel number.

        Service Name: Serial Port 1
        Service RecHandle: 0x10003
        Service Class ID List:
          "Serial Port" (0x1101)
          Protocol Descriptor List:
            "L2CAP" (0x0100)
              "RFCOMM" (0x0003)
                  Channel: 4

The first time that you run BluePhone you need to specify the device address and RFCOMM channel at the command line.

$ bluephone --address=00:00:00:00:00:00 --rfcomm=4

The next release of BluePhone will allow you to search for devices from within the GUI.

Please send any questions or comments to er241@cam.ac.uk. If you find a bug please report it at our SourceForge project page:

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/bluephone