singularity-bluetooth package

05 Jun 2007 2 Days ago, I started working on the Phase 6 guide entitled "Communicating with GSM (Siemens S65) over Bluetooth to do filesharing, sending/receiving SMS and dialup networking".

I have most things I want, working and documented. But of course that's not enough. Today I've started working on the Ubuntu package that will configure everything for me.

For reference (I hate having to pick up manuals again), the correct repository line to go into /etc/apt/sources.list is

deb http://www.singularity.be ubuntu/

I will split up the functionality of Phase 6 in 2 packages: singularity-bluetooth and singularity-dialup.

Singularity-bluetooth will contain the dependencies needed to work with bluetooth: gnome-vfs-obexftp, bluez-gnome, obexpushd, gnome-bluetooth, gnome-phone-manager and bluez-utils.
On installation, the postinst script will scan for all bluetooth devices in range and prompt me to select one. Then, it will generate a link in the "Places" menu under Gnome (an obex://[00:11:22:33:44:55]/ link) and my /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf configuration file. It should also make sure that obexpushd is automatically started.

Singularity-dialup will configure the dialup connection for the KULeuven network, and set it to use /dev/rfcomm0 (my GSM over bluetooth). The package is separated from singularity-bluetooth, because I don't expect it will be as useful to other people as the singularity-bluetooth package.

One more thing I will create, is a singularity-ludit-printers package, which will configure all the printers LUDIT has, in my Ubuntu. That should shave some valuable seconds from my laptop installation procedure ;)

[2 hours later]
I now have the singularity-bluetooth package ready. As announced, it will create /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf and add the bluetooth device under "Places" by adding an entry to ~/.gtk-bookmarks

It also adds a configfile to /etc/X11/Xsession.d to start obexpushd when the user logs in. Arbitrarily, I chose ~/obexpushd_received as the target directory for OBEX uploads from the GSM.

I'm reinstalling Ubuntu now to test this package on a clean system.