Palm sync over bluetooth?
Maksim Yevmenkin
maksim.yevmenkin at savvis.net
Wed Jul 13 20:07:57 GMT 2005
Eric,
>>> Does anyone have a cookbook, or howto on this? I think I'm missing a
>>> piece somewhere..
>>
>> depends on what do you mean by "sync" :) intelligent sync, i.e
>> something like syncml etc. is not supported at the moment. its not
>> really a bluetooth fault, its just no one wrote a tool (or at least i
>> do not know of any) that properly does syncml over obex over bluetooth
>> (or whatever palm supports). i'd like to add syncml support to
>> obexapp(1), but not have much free time at the moment.
>>
>> it should be possible to transfer files/etc. from/to palm using obex
>> with obexapp(1) from ports (comms/obexapp).
>
> :) ok, I'll try to state more clearly..
>
> I'd like to get my palm t5 to sync (using the 'hotsync' in the palm)
> over bluetooth, instead of serial cable, or even usb, using jpilot (or
> pilot-xfer which jpilot uses I believe). pilot-xfer can use a serial
> port (/dev/something) or network (net:any for ip).
>
> I was thinking that since my palm supports syncing over bluetooth (uses
> it like a serial port), I should be able to make my FreeBSD box connect
> the bluetooth to a pseudo tty device, which I could then have pilot-xfer
> use. Does this seem reasonable?
man rfcomm_sppd(1)
thanks,
max
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