[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 4/5] bluetooth: Remove device_remove_all()

[João Paulo Rechi Vita]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Tanu Kaskinen
<tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 10:43 -0300, João Paulo Rechi Vita wrote:
>> Ack. Same question about testing applies here, and I should have made
>> it more generic, actually: Do you have audio devices to be able to
>> test these changes?
>
> Devices aren't a problem (I have two A2DP/HFP headsets and one HFP-only
> headset), but I haven't yet installed BlueZ 5. So, these patches have
> not been tested.
>
> What would you recommend as an easy-to-use GUI to replace the Gnome
> Bluetooth applet, which will inevitably break if I replace BlueZ 4 with
> BlueZ 5? (I don't have the newest Gnome version yet, and I'm not going
> to install Gnome from source.)
>

I don't use any GUI with BlueZ 5 atm. In my tests I use the scripts
under the tests/ dir in the bluez repo. There is also bluetoothctl,
which is under the client/ repo, that aggregates the functionality of
most test scripts altogether. I haven't used it much tho, mostly
because I was lazy to look much at it.

If you want to use the scripts you should be able to find your device
with test-discovery and pair using "./simple-agent <hci>
<device_address>". <hci> will most likely be hci0, but you can check
what hciconfig lists for you. The device address will be shown as an
output of test-discovery. You also should be able to
disconnect/reconnect with a paired device using "./test-device connect
<device_address>". Last, "./test-device list" will list you all the
paired devices.

bluetoothctl is an interactive tool (like pacmd), so the help command
should get you going :)

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