Hello Everybody,
Does anyone out there know anything about the hardware suitable and if there is any open source software available for bluecasting that will run on a linux server?
I have checked around and I can only find companies that offer a complete service for Windows.
Thanks,
Mandy.
On 19 Aug 12:30, Mandy Young wrote:
Hello Everybody,
Good morning, Miss Young (coo, it's just like being back at school!)
Does anyone out there know anything about the hardware suitable and if there is any open source software available for bluecasting that will run on a linux server?
Well, not knowing exactly what it is that you want to "blue cast" makes it a little tricky to know how to answer this, and without knowing wether it's supposed to just spam every bluetooth device that it discovers or wether it's supposed to wait for the device to send it a message first is another problem...
But, basically speaking, I can't see why you'd need anything more than the bluez tools and some basic shell scripting.
Thanks,
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Mandy Young mandy.young@linusoft.co.ukwrote:
Hello Everybody,
Does anyone out there know anything about the hardware suitable and if there is any open source software available for bluecasting that will run on a linux server?
I have checked around and I can only find companies that offer a complete service for Windows.
Thanks,
Mandy.
If 'bluecasting' means sending files to devices that come in proximity automatically, with matching of names, this is something you can do with bluez and scripts in any language you like.
If you wanted GUI tools you could use the KDE bluetooth applet to set up actions for individual devices as they appear (or at least you could when I had a raft of Sony Ericsson phones), but I'm guessing that isn't necessary from the use of the word "server".
If you mean something other than that, you might have to be more specific.
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