Serial port profile application - mobile phone manager

July 2002 by Jakub. Relates to afe 020609a.

Intro

This short document describes how can be the Bluetooth serial port profile used for running a mobile phone manager. All we need is the Affix protocol stack, for user convenience the AFE frontend, and then any mobile phone manager that works with a serial device (e.g. serial port device). For the demonstration we use the hh phone manager, which unfortunatelly didn't work with our Nokia phone :-(

How-to

  1. Discover the devices and click the Serial port icon.
    A window for serial port appears. There are two actions to be taken:
    • First, the connection is estableshed over bluetooth.
    • Then external command is executed such, that the device assigned to the newly created connection is being passed to it as a parameter (See the /dev/bty%l)
  2. Click OK button
    After clicking the OK button, the line got connected and the device passed to external command, which got executed.
  3. Watch the phone manager start and init
    The phone manager starts up and as it has been given the device as a command-line parameter it immediatelly connects to the mobile phone and recognizes its type.
  4. The phone manager can then monitor network or manage phonebook.
    Net monitor Downloading Phonebook


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