Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] Sending arbitrary data to a connected device
From: "Collin R. Mulliner" <collin@betaversion.net>
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Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:16:18 -0800

You guys are not talking about implementing a software HID device, are
you? I just did that over Thanksgiving ... sofar only a keyboard (so I
can use my laptop as a BT keyboard for my 770). I'll have to do some
testing and build a gui and stuff before I release anything.

Collin

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 14:39 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Rutger,
> 
> > > > I already saw you were using report ID 16 and 17, so I will try that too.
> > >
> > > You need to send and receive reports with ID 16 and 17. Both have fixed
> > > length and 16 was for the short messages and 17 for the long messages if
> > > I remember that correctly. They are the same we used for switching the
> > > dongle from HID into HCI mode.
> > >
> > > The problem is to get these reports to the device. The HIDP kernel
> > > module with the report protocol (see -mh patch) lacks hiddev support.
> > 
> > Is there a specific reason for the lack of hiddev support?
> 
> basically its because of lack of time and my report protocol patch is
> still considered a hack by me.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Marcel

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Collin R. Mulliner <collin@betaversion.net>
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