Comments on: Investigating OBEX over USB http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/06/18/investigating-obex-over-usb/ Random stuff Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:53:32 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Olivier Berger http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/06/18/investigating-obex-over-usb/comment-page-1/#comment-424 Olivier Berger Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:32:32 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/06/18/investigating-obex-over-usb/#comment-424 Hi. Nice to see such progress. For what it's worth, I've written a small piece on using my SE K610i phone with OBEX over USB here : <a href="http://www.olivierberger.com/weblog/index.php/2006/11/12/66-transfering-files-to-the-sony-ericsson-k610i-from-gnu-linux-through-usb-obex" rel="nofollow">Transfering files to the Sony Ericsson K610i from GNU/Linux through USB + OBEX</a>. Best regards, Hi.

Nice to see such progress. For what it’s worth, I’ve written a small piece on using my SE K610i phone with OBEX over USB here :

Transfering files to the Sony Ericsson K610i from GNU/Linux through USB + OBEX.

Best regards,

]]> By: James Henstridge http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/06/18/investigating-obex-over-usb/comment-page-1/#comment-423 James Henstridge Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:48:38 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/06/18/investigating-obex-over-usb/#comment-423 Actually, there is one area I wouldn't mind seeing HAL improve is to add Bluetooth device support. If I am going to add USB support, it'd be nice if I could share as much discovery code between the Bluetooth and USB cases as possible. Actually, there is one area I wouldn’t mind seeing HAL improve is to add Bluetooth device support. If I am going to add USB support, it’d be nice if I could share as much discovery code between the Bluetooth and USB cases as possible.

]]> By: James Henstridge http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/06/18/investigating-obex-over-usb/comment-page-1/#comment-422 James Henstridge Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:10:27 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/06/18/investigating-obex-over-usb/#comment-422 Hi David, I just checked my own phone, none of the three OBEX interfaces provided an interface description (lsusb reports iInterface = 0). From a look at the code, the "(null)" bits in the obex_test output would have displayed these interface description strings were provided. As all three interfaces behaved identically, I didn't realise that HAL needed any extra features :) Your suggestion of using FDI files to tag the usable interfaces seems sensible -- I'd originally been planning to just look up the devices by the interface class/subclass like OpenOBEX currently does. That still leaves the question of how to get OpenOBEX to connect to a device I discover with HAL, but that is an OpenOBEX problem rather than a HAL problem. Hi David,

I just checked my own phone, none of the three OBEX interfaces provided an interface description (lsusb reports iInterface = 0). From a look at the code, the “(null)” bits in the obex_test output would have displayed these interface description strings were provided. As all three interfaces behaved identically, I didn’t realise that HAL needed any extra features :)

Your suggestion of using FDI files to tag the usable interfaces seems sensible — I’d originally been planning to just look up the devices by the interface class/subclass like OpenOBEX currently does.

That still leaves the question of how to get OpenOBEX to connect to a device I discover with HAL, but that is an OpenOBEX problem rather than a HAL problem.

]]> By: davidz http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/06/18/investigating-obex-over-usb/comment-page-1/#comment-421 davidz Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:47:22 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/06/18/investigating-obex-over-usb/#comment-421 Btw, forgot to mention that one point of having it in HAL is that with the ACL-patch (that is also in 0.5.9) we'd use this rather than udev rules to add ACL's to the device file. Btw, forgot to mention that one point of having it in HAL is that with the ACL-patch (that is also in 0.5.9) we’d use this rather than udev rules to add ACL’s to the device file.

]]> By: davidz http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/06/18/investigating-obex-over-usb/comment-page-1/#comment-420 davidz Mon, 18 Jun 2007 03:46:15 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2007/06/18/investigating-obex-over-usb/#comment-420 Someone posted a patch to HAL that I merged that exports the so-called "USB Interface Decscription" textual value http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commit;h=8e00f386dd4af855116cb1082c0ae6fd8db7ce5e This patch is in hal 0.5.9. There's some more info in this thread http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2007-March/007761.html It might be worth having a bunch of .fdi files in hal-info tag the appropriate USB interface with something so you can discover them from gnome-vfs? I bet it varies what the textual description of the interface is given the mobile phone though. But it should be feasible. Hope this helps and keep on rocking on OBEX! Thanks! Someone posted a patch to HAL that I merged that exports the so-called “USB Interface Decscription” textual value

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commit;h=8e00f386dd4af855116cb1082c0ae6fd8db7ce5e

This patch is in hal 0.5.9. There’s some more info in this thread

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2007-March/007761.html

It might be worth having a bunch of .fdi files in hal-info tag the appropriate USB interface with something so you can discover them from gnome-vfs? I bet it varies what the textual description of the interface is given the mobile phone though. But it should be feasible.

Hope this helps and keep on rocking on OBEX! Thanks!

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