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# GeneralPlugins/Bluetooth

## Bluetooth remote control plugin

This is a plugin that let's you control Freevo with your cellphone. It should work with ALL cellphones that have event reporting and bluetooth.

Reported to work with Ericsson T68, SonyEricsson T610 and Siemens S55. The Nokia N-Gage does _not_ work (event reporting not supported).

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New version for Freevo 1.5-pre1 released. Check it out. Bugfixes and some other new stuff.

Please read the README file included, it contains all the information you need (almost) to get it working right away.

New features:

- Button exploring ("freevo bluebutton" Press a button on the phone and see what it's called. Used for buttonconfiguration.)

- Keylock feature (Makes it send commands only if the keypad lock is on. See the instructions for more info)

- Sleeping (Don't chew all CPU power, check the config)

- Keep alive (Might fix the disconnection problem by sending "ATI")

Requirements:

- A Bluetooth phone, a Bluetooth dongle. The phone should be able to receive AT (Hayes) commands, and it must have a certain command that sends all keypad events to the computer. (It's "AT+CMER=3,2,0,0,0", if you send it to your phone with minicom it should say "OK" back.)

- The Bluetooth Subsystem (kernel)

If you need any help you can find my email adress in the plugin source. Please read the README file first.

Keysettings for T68 and T610 is default, with the report of Siemens S55, this was submitted:

    BLUE_CMDS = {
         'V' : 'DISPLAY',
         'S' : 'VOL-',
         'E' : 'VOL+',
         '1' : 'PLAY',
         '2' : 'UP',
         '3' : 'STOP',
         '4' : 'LEFT',
         '5' : 'SELECT',
         '6' : 'RIGHT',
         '7' : 'REW',
         '8' : 'DOWN',
         '9' : 'FFWD',
         '0' : 'EXIT',
         }

Note that this does NOT use the keylock feature.

Please send me an email if you got it working with any other phone then the ones stated at the top.

PleaseUpdate : Can someone who uses the plugin verify that all the info is still correct for freevo 1.5.x Info for older freevo versions can be deleted.

last edited 2005-01-10 18:21:13 by BHeremans
current version: http://freevo.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/doc/GeneralPlugins/Bluetooth