Software on Simon Waite

Bluetooth Hands Free

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:04:15 +0000

Post date: Apr 18, 2012 10:04:15 AM

Nohands is a dbus-based hands hands-free profile daemon. It can be found at nohands.sf.net. The svn code requires a fair amount of work to compile properly, so I fetched the source and debianisation patches from here.

To get my iPhone to work (my android phone worked first time) as apparently it attempts to request the hands free profile immediately. I had to create this configuration:

XML and false starts...

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:20:33 +0000

Post date: Jul 14, 2011 4:20:33 PM

Well, I managed to mess up the framework quite completely. It was just too complicated, and I wasn’t happy with it.

So I scrubbed it, reimplemented it using some researched design patterns. Realised that I was essentially inventing a language, so tried using XML, and finding mono was segfaulting all over the place. If the latest mono isn’t happy with XML, unity’s version - which is a little older, certainly won’t.