[Wine] Re: wine and bluetooth

[CaptainCrazy]

slight update: can get device to pair in normal linux apps (although
obviously not useful as these are native linux apps)

the win app still didn't want to know about it though :-(
CaptainCrazy wrote:
> device is an industry grade pool pump control system lol
>
> I know that linux is seeing it - I can see it in the list of devices it
> detects.. but apart from that not sure where to go :S
>
> works fantastic in windows but need it to run on linux through wine :)
>
> basically the device is paired and then you run a windows application
> and that connects you up - it's designed so that you can control your
> pool system remotely.
>
> maybe not the correct place to look from the sounds of things though
> wine needs the device to be paired first before you run any application
> through it - I'll check with bluez tools and see if there's a way to
> manually pair it. something so simple you would think but oh well.
> Daniel Skorka wrote:
> > CaptainCrazy at gmail.com wrote:
> > > I've got an application that relies on bluetooth and although the
> > > bluetooth can see the device I want to pair with linux doesn't offer
> > > any way of doing this but just says that it will try to pair once a
> > > service requests this.. the application is windows and I'm starting to
> > > suspect that the problem isn't in the bluetooth or linux but something
> > > in wine that isn't requesting this or some such
> > >
> > > does wine have bluetooth covered? is there a command/argument I need to
> > > give it? if not then oh well
> >
> > What kind of bluetooth device do you want to use? If you want to use eg.
> > a bluetooth mouse or keyboard, Linux and X11 handle everything and wine
> > doesn't come into play.
> > 
> > Daniel