Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] Developing a basic service for BlueTooth enabled
	devices
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:29:22 +0100

Hi,

> I am trying to develop a simple service application that will run on
> Linux boxes and serve ad hoc BlueTooth clients (mostly phones and
> PDAs) using BlueZ stack. However, I want to eliminate the dev effort
> on the client side as much as possible. There are many varieties of
> platforms on the client side and I am by myself who is working on this
> (at home). 
> 
> My first approach was to develep a web service with Apache for WAP
> enabled  browsers that would run locally on each Linux server boxes
> and serve WAP pages to the local ad-hoc mobile clients in order to
> eliminate the client side development effort. However, it looks like
> for many mobile devices I won't be able to do that. I have Motorola
> RAZR V3 Java enabled phone at home and I could not do this by
> establishing a piconet between my Kubuntu box and RAZR V3. 
> 
> What would be your suggestion? What kind of client/server platform
> would ease the work on the client side ?

I don't see easy way to avoid work on the client side. However the Java
Bluetooth programming is not that big deal (RFCOMM channels only) from
what I heard. I never did it and so I might be wrong.

Regards

Marcel


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