Re: Can a Mac act as a Bluetooth Mouse?
Re: Can a Mac act as a Bluetooth Mouse?
- Subject: Re: Can a Mac act as a Bluetooth Mouse?
- From: Stephane Odul <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:59:19 -0700
Wouldn't Synergy be a better solution for what you are trying to do:
use one computer's mouse on a an other one.
See: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
- Stephane
On Mar 25, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Thomas Tempelmann wrote:
I'm trying to get my Mac offer itself as a BT Mouse device.
I've taken the Chat Server sample project, changed the service
dictionary
accodingly (I hope) and ran it. Then I tried to have another BT-
equipped Mac
find the Mouse service. But it doesn't work.
Problem is that I don't know why. There's not much of a debugging
option
there, it seems to me.
Using the Bluetooth Explorer on the serving Mac shows me that the SDP
entries should be alright for an initial detection.
One of the reasons why the other Mac fails to detect the mouse
service might
be that the serving Mac still identifies itself as a "Computer" and
not as a
"Peripheral". And that it does not include the "Positioning"
feature in its
service class info. I've tried changing both in the Bluetooth
Explorer, but
that change seems to have no effect on the client Mac side - there,
the Mac
keeps appearing as a Computer device without the Positioning feature.
But I don't even know if that matters as I do not know the rules by
which
the Mac searches for a Mouse or other HID devices (e.g. a Keyboard).
Can someone enlighten me or suggest how I could debug this further?
E.g, does the initial search for a Mouse in the Bluettoth Setup
Assistant
even query the SDP records, or does it only check the device class
info? A
trace with PacketLogger suggests to me that the SDP record is _not_
checked
at that point. Does that mean I cannot provide a Mouse service at
all on a
Mac?
Thomas
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