helloSystem
Add a way to manage Bluetooth
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/advanced-networking/#network-bluetooth
FreeBSD Foundation-supported projects: call for ideas, November 2021
This issue helloSystem/Menu#46 is now linked from the summary of ideas.
BlueMoon appears to be a simple Qt based tool for this, but I could not get it to work yet:
https://github.com/sklins/BlueMoon/issues/9
At least see when it is on, and be able to disable it.
And a way to pair with devices, like wifi applet. And an option to export sound to airphones.
Lubuntu uses Bluedevil https://manual.lubuntu.me/stable/2/2.1/2.1.4/bluedevil.html
but Bluedevil seems to be not available on FreeBSD?
Possibly it would be easiest to write a Qt GUI in Python around https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/doc/handbook/network-bluetooth.html
Want to write it @alphamodh0? By looking at the source code of Applications -> Under Construction -> Network and the FreeBSD Bluetooth documentation.
Want to write it @alphamodh0? By looking at the source code of Applications -> Under Construction -> Network and the FreeBSD Bluetooth documentation.
Yes 😁, I will put all my effort into it.
I tried to build the Qt Bluetooth File Transfer Example application that comes as an example with Qt Creator. It would be pretty perfect for our purposes, but unfortunately it says qt.bluetooth: Dummy backend running. Qt Bluetooth module is non-functional.
How can we get Qt to interact with FreeBSD's Bluetooth stack?
QBluetooth seems to require http://www.bluez.org/ on Unix/Linux. FreeBSD is apparently not using BlueZ. As a result, QBluetooth does not work on FreeBSD yet?
Looks like it: https://twitter.com/kdedude/status/1510233730283188231
Which means we would have to code something around the FreeBSD specific command line tools.
We can work around the new blued bluetooth interface to make a GUI.
Official FreeBSD advice and explanation
Here is how to do it on the command line: https://www.tspi.at/2020/02/18/fbsdbtmouse.html
For connecting Bluetooth keyboards, this works for me (I tested with nopin, nokey which is not good for production) : https://notebook.niklaas.eu/freebsd-bluetooth-keyboard/