KDE Connect Bluetooth
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I think this would create some excellent news for us, and would enable me to get a positive dialogue going with Joe at OMG Ubuntu.

Most importantly, I think this would be a winning feature that would attract alot of interest.

Apparently there is a build of KDE Connect that enables the connection via Bluetooth.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/kde-connect-bluetooth-backend-development

Be great if this could be built, tested and shipped

tsimonq2 claimed this task.Mar 20 2018, 9:25 PM
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Minus all the OMG Ubuntu stuff, I can look into this.

rikmills moved this task from Ready 4 Work to Backlog on the Kubuntu board.Apr 7 2018, 1:04 PM

It's not ready for prime yet, sorry. It should be possible to pair devices, but every feature that involves sending files is not working.

bobli added a subscriber: bobli.May 29 2018, 3:14 PM

Bluetooth connection is also working with Gsconnect (experimental): https://github.com/andyholmes/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/issues/17
Do you think OBEX could be used for file transfer? It should be easier than handling UUIDs.

Qt doesn't support receiving stuff via OBEX, so that wouldn't work for us :-( Also, I'm not sure that you can initiate transfers to a specific application.

I've been unable to work on bluetooth for some time, since my phone is broken (and the replacement has other problems). Should be fixed soon though.

Ok, sorry I didn't realize that OBEX was not fully supported in Qt. What about using a Bluez dbus wrapper (only on Linux) then for receiving files and browsing, until Qt supports it? I never used it but I understood that you can change the path of the receiving file, that would be sufficient for the use in KDEConnect

Hmm, possibly. I couldn't find out how to do this from the Android side though, do you have an idea how to do that?