bluetooth

Just updated the 120Gb slim PS3 to the latest 3.30 update.

After the update neither of the sixaxis controllers or the BD remote could get any kind of response wirelessly. The controllers worked fine over USB.

No reset seemed to help.

However - the following worked fine.

• Turn off PS3
• Unplug
• Wait 10 secs
• Replug and boot
• Press PS button on controller over USB to sync
• Remove controller and press PS button to get a wireless connection
• Repeat with second controller
• Use system menu to re-attach BD remote as if it were a new remote.

The BT3030 bluetooth headset is a nice headset but with the iphone the minimum volume is too high.

It seems that a firmware update on the jabra can help a bit.

See http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2064373 for the discussion but in brief:

Grab: http://www.jabragn.jp/support/utility/bt3030_firmware_ver1.32.exe

An update to iPhone 3.0 firmware release and stereo bluetooth - missing AVRCP

It turns out that the iPhone does support AVRCP - that's giving us the play/pause functionality.

But - in this support article:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3647

it says:

iPhone and iPod touch (2nd generation) support pause, play, and stop for AVRCP

So - apple have implemented AVRCP - but just not all of it.

From the support article there is no indication if this is going to get updated - so I guess we'll just have to hope.

Update on AVRCP

Wildly irritating.

Apple have added A2DP (stereo music) over bluetooth.

Time to grab that bluetooth adapter I stopped using after getting an iPhone from work.

Hang on - the scan/skip buttons (fast forward/rewind/change track) don't work.

I'm astounded that Apple have included support for A2DP without AVRCP (AVRCP is the profile for these skip/scan buttons).

http://metaquark.de/homezone/

A really cool little app that can do things when you move in/out of range with your bluetooth phone.

It can also trigger based on your IP or airport availability :)

The n95 from nokia is not directly supported by mac osx. However - there are two additions that will help.

iSync

Nokia themselves provide an iSync plugin that will give you full syncing of iCal and Address Book. More info available from Nokia

Address Book pairing

The changes from this post about the S700i also work for the P990i (the string is P900).

To collect it in one place - this is taken from http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050731124746116

The Address Book was showing that the phone was connected - but incoming SMS never reached the mac, outgoing SMS disappeared into thin air and incoming calls always showed as Unknown.

The solution is here:

macosxhints - 10.4: Add Address Book support for SonyEricsson K750i

Read on down - for the S700i - the string to add is S700

Well - having got the mac mini - time to get bluetooth net access running - just for the fun of it.

To get bluetooth internet access running for my S700i Sony Ericsson I found the following two places useful

For a tutorial:
http://www.crackistan.com/2004/11/connect-gprs-via-sony-ericsson-k700i-mac-os-x-bluetooth/

For the Sony Ericsson modem scripts
http://www.taniwha.org.uk/

For Telenor - the CID of the downloaded internet connection was 1.

When using XP SP2 you need to make sure that the bluetooth dongle (this is talking about a F8T003 v2) is using Belkin's driver and not the standard one from Microsoft.

The following document at Belkin discusses the problem:

http://www.belkin.com/support/download/downloaddetails.asp?file_id=1899

Running a dial-up over bluetooth to a S700i.

Most of this is cargo-culted from the pages listed on http://www.holtmann.org/linux/kernel/ (page no longer available) - with most of it coming from here.

Installed bluez-hcidump, bluez-pin and bluez-utils.

Used hcidump and sdptool to scan for the device - got the device's id.

bluez-pin worked for me - so I kept that.

Config files.

/etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf - unchanged

/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf

rfcomm0 {
bind yes;
device device_id;
channel 1;