Bluetooth in YDL?

[CED10]

Hey Guys,

I'm a new user with YDL 6.1 and i was wondering if there is any kind of software which allows you to use the bluetooth on the ps3 to send and recieve files to devices such as mobile phones? If anyone knows anything even if it can't be done please get back to me.

thanks for you time

[juanito]

You should/might be able to use openobex, obexftp and (if you want to mount your phone as a file system) obexfs and fuse.

These work fine for me on an x86 system, but I didn't try on ydl - I'm not sure if they are available via yum, you might need to compile them.

[CED10]

Hi again,
Thanks for replying so quick and I don't mean to sound like a pain but because i'm new to YDL I don't really understand much and i was wondering if you could post a link to help.
but thank you very much for help.

[juanito]

You could try the following sticky posts in the ps3 section:

Please READ ME FIRST (known issues, useful links, and help)

Howto: Install software (the easy way) YDL 6

[CED10]

Ok i will do,
thanks for all your help and if you get anymore information to do with bluetooth please keep me updated
thanks again

[juanito]

I'm not at a ps3 at the moment, but you could open a terminal window and enter the following:

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$ su -l
[enter root password]
# yum install *obex*

This should list any obex packages available for ydl. If no packages are found, you will need to compile the various obex apps.

[CED10]

Hi again thanks for the reply but i tried typing what you said in to the terminal and it wasn't sucessfull all i got was this:

[root@localhost ~]# yum install *obex*
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
livna-stable 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 205 B 00:00
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/f ... repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: fedora-extras

I liked to say thanks again for your help i'm sure i'll figure it out sooner or later and if i do i'll let you knok.
thanks

[ppietro]

Hi again thanks for the reply but i tried typing what you said in to the terminal and it wasn't sucessfull all i got was this:

[root@localhost ~]# yum install *obex*
Loading "protectbase" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
livna-stable 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 205 B 00:00
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/f ... repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: fedora-extras

I liked to say thanks again for your help i'm sure i'll figure it out sooner or later and if i do i'll let you knok.
thanks

You need to update your fedora-extras.repo, I think. Take a look at the one here:
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3017#p11364

The download.fedora.redhat.com server is now archives.fedoraproject.org.

I think this means:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/f ... ras/6/ppc/
is now
http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/a ... ras/6/ppc/

Cheers,
Paul

[CED10]

Hey

I just done the update what you said Paul and you was right that was the problem thanks a lot for your help I'm just installing Obex now and will test it soon. I'd just like to say thanks to both you guys for the help its much appreciated and I'll keep you guys updated with my progress thanks again and sorry for the late reply

[CED10]

Hey Ive installed the obex now well at least I think I have is there a way I can check, also I was wondering if you knew the commands to use obex to send a file to a mobile device I know how to scan for a device which is hcitool scan in the terminal and it finds my device but then I'm stuck there thanks for all your help.

[juanito]

To check if obex (and obexftp and obexfs) are installed, you could look for /usr/lib/libobex*

Before you can use obex, you need to "pair" with the remote bluetooth device. I guess the way to do this differs with what window manager you use - E17, bloat-o-gnome, etc - I'm not at a ps3 right now, but you could trawl through the menus looking for bluetooth and pair. Maybe bluez-gnome (which can be used to pair) is already installed or exists as a yum package?

Once you are paired, "obexftp -l" should find your remote device and list the contents of the top level directory. The obexftp man page will give the instructions for file transfer. As I mentioned earlier, it is perhaps easier to mount the remote device file system using obexfs and then transfer files with your window manager's file manager.

[CED10]

Sorry I have took so long to reply I just came back from holiday 2days ago and this is the first chance I got to message back. Thanks for your help I will try the things you said but I'm not at the ps3 at the moment so when I do try it I'll let you know but thanks again and hope your good.