[gnome-bluetooth] Remote music control

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Tue Aug 9 23:02:45 BST 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 21:02 +0100, Adam Lofts wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to write a muine plugin and phone app to allow me to
> control music with my phone. Looking at the gnome-bluetooth components
> I'm guessing that it can be done with only the libbtctl library (which
> handily has mono bindings).
> 
> What I dont understand is how to advertise a service on the computer
> (to control the music). [ And then how to read / write to this
> connection ]
> 
> If anyone has any hints or if a similar project is underway then your
> knowledge would be very appreciated.

libbtctl just won't be enough. You'll also need to talk to the phone
once you've managed to make the "hardware" connection (think of
Bluetooth as Ethernet).

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312098
It has a couple of links to the bemused project.

See also the existing:
http://linuxbrit.co.uk/bluexmms/
http://cardhu.pnx.se/jonatan/blueremote.php

The reference in that domain is the Mac program:
http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Clicker/

---
Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> 




More information about the gnome-bluetooth mailing list