[MeeGo Harmattan] QZeeControl : Control your N9 remotely with Zeemote !

QZeeControl lets you control your N9/N950 with a Zeemote(TM) Bluetooth remote control. and is completly written from scratch in Qt/QML

In order to use your Zeemote(TM) with your smartphone you have to follow three steps.

- First, you need to pair your Zeemote(TM) with your phone. In order to do this activate bluetooth via the settings menu and turn your Zeemote(TM) on by long-pressing the button at the top of your Zeemote(TM) that is marked red. Next go to the "Bluetooth devices" sub setting menu. There you should find an entry named "Zeemote(TM) JS1" select it and select to pair it. The code for pairing is 0000. At this stage the remote control is paired but not connected.

- Once you have paired your remote control with your smartphone you need to discover it using QZeeControl. To do this start up QZeeControl and press the "Scan" button. Note that this may take a while. If the scan was successfull you should see some address in xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx format be filled in the field that prior showed just a message and the "Connect" button should have become enabled. Note that these values will be stored and loaded once you open QZeeControl the next time so you usually should not need to scan again except you want to use a different remote control.

- Finally, in order to start controlling your smartphone you need to actually connect your remote control to the phone. To do so just press the "Connect" button. After a short moment you should see that the connection has been established. At this stage you can test if the remote control actually works by using the built-in test functionality. Try to move your joystick and press some buttons. You should see the red rectangle moving and the letters representing the buttons light-up in red respectively.

 From there on you can use your Zeemote(TM) remote control to control your phone. Next time you want to use it just enable bluetooth at your phone, enable the Zeemote(TM) remote control, and finally start QZeeControl and connect to the remote control.


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[MeeGo Harmattan] btinput : use a Bluetooth keyboard with your N9 !

btinput allows you to connect a bluetooth keyboard to your phone.

[MeeGo Harmattan] Toggle BT : touch the icon to Switch on\off Bluetooth !

Toggle BT : Switch on\off Bluetooth on your Nokia N9? Now it's very simple and quick! Just touch the icon!

[How To] Make a Bluetooth Mouse Working !

Well, it's a bit complicated and advanced tutorial and since i have no bluetooth mouse, i couldn't test it and provide you a small 4 steps tutorials as usual ;) So take a look over this topic and read it very carefully !



You don't want to use your laptop anymore :-)

[How To] Get access to your MicroSD card through Bluetooth !

The N900's OBEX FTP service ("File Transfer Server" bluetooth service in WinXP) by default only gives you access to six directories - the five main document directories ("Documents", "Audio clips", etc.) and MyDocs root (named "Data").

Turns out this is controlled via symlinks in /home/user/.obex-root/, making it ridiculously easy to customize (from a Linux user's standpoint, at least). The sole thing keeping it from being a total walk in the park for anybody and everybody is that the permissions default to being set with no write access for anybody (geek note: octal 550, owned by user.users), so they have to be adjusted first.

So! As an example, here's a novice user tutorial on how to get access to your MicroSD card through Bluetooth with this method:

1. Open an X terminal.
2. Type the following commands:

Code:

chmod 750 .obex-root

(This modifies permissions so that we can make this mod.)

Code:

ln -s /media/mmc1 .obex-root/Memory\ Card

(Create the symlink "symbolic link" which is a very useful files like shortcuts in windows)

Code:

chmod 550 .obex-root

(Change the permissions back to what they were before. Not strictly necessary...)

When this is done, the Bluetooth file transfer server will now show a "Memory Card" directory in addition to the usual "Audio Clips", "Video Clips", "Documents", et cetera. In there will be the contents of your memory card.

If you have the Nokia PC Suite installed, this also affects the directories shown in the Nokia Phone Browser - with both Bluetooth and USB connections. That last is particularly nice because it allows you to access filesystems with the "PC Suite mode" USB connection without them having to be unmounted first, as is necessary for "Storage device mode". (The latter is still useful because it's 1) universal to all computers, and 2) an actual filesystem which lets you, say, edit-in-place rather than copy back and forth.)

Finally, you can create symlinks to anywhere in the filesystem and it'll work. Browsing and read/write is done with "user" level privs - i.e. you can't symlink to /etc and thereafter edit config files this way, but you will have read-only access. Also, the service doesn't let you access dotfiles - if they're hidden to "ls", they're inaccessible via this system.

Also, be aware that this constitutes a potential security hole if you're incautious about your Bluetooth pairing habits - see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48044 for an example. (Pairing with devices you don't 100% trust is always a Bad Idea, no matter what. It's like giving out your password. Don't do it!)

Via : talk.maemo.org

OpenWatch : Notification utility for Bluetooth watches !

OpenWatch is finally ported to Fremantle ! It uses connected Bluetooth watches for notifications and many more !

Requirements
- Maemo 5.0 device with telephony functions (Nokia N900)
- Bluetooth watch (currently supported MBW-100/150/200)
- Python 2.5 (maemo-python-device-env)


Installation
1. Install OpenWatch
2. Pair your watch with N900
3. Launch OpenWatch and turn on your watch/press a button on your watch.


Features
- Time sync
- SMS notification (phone number or name)
- Call notification (phone number or name)
- Call rejection
- Media player control (pause/play, next, prev, volume up/down)
- Music track info (current track)
- Unread SMS count


To Do
- IM (Skype/ICQ/...) notification (done)
- better name looup, im lookup (done)
- E-mail notification
- calendar/alarm reminder
- more unread messages counters
- background service
- small 2 line font
- API
- etc.


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