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=== Mac OSX ===
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    * Remove any existent pairings between your phone/tablet and your computer (in both devices).
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    * Start bluetooth on your Mac. Set it to be discoverable.
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    * Make sure to check your Mac's name doesn't have any apostrophes, i.e. John's Macbook. Change if necessary. (This is
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      currently a bug in BlueMaemo, please remove this line once fixed.)
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    * Start BlueMaemo and select "Establish Connection".
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    * Select your Mac and pair with your phone/tablet. Click yes on the pairing dialog on the mac first before pressing the
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      "Pair" button on your phone/tablet.
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    * Select yes in the "Connect to" dialog, a authorization dialog will appear.
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    * You can then use the reconnect button on BlueMaemo to connect to an already paired Mac.
=== Playstation 3 ===
=== Playstation 3 ===

Revision as of 18:28, 3 January 2010

BlueMaemo is a remote controller application for the Maemo-powered devices. With BlueMaemo you can turn your Maemo-powered device in a mixed Bluetooth keyboard-and-mouse device through the HID Bluetooth profile.


Contents

Downloads

How to connect for the first time

For legacy versions of BlueMaemo (< 0.3.7), see instructions here.

Linux

  • Remove any existent pairings between your phone/tablet and your computer (in both devices).
  • Start BlueMaemo and select "Establish Connection".
  • Select and pair your phone/tablet with your computer.
  • Select yes in the "Connect to" dialog, a authorization dialog will appear, check "always grant access" to allow future reconnection's.

Windows XP

  • tbd

Mac OSX 

   * Remove any existent pairings between your phone/tablet and your computer (in both devices).
   * Start bluetooth on your Mac. Set it to be discoverable.
   * Make sure to check your Mac's name doesn't have any apostrophes, i.e. John's Macbook. Change if necessary. (This is 
     currently a bug in BlueMaemo, please remove this line once fixed.) 
   * Start BlueMaemo and select "Establish Connection".
   * Select your Mac and pair with your phone/tablet. Click yes on the pairing dialog on the mac first before pressing the
     "Pair" button on your phone/tablet.
   * Select yes in the "Connect to" dialog, a authorization dialog will appear.
   * You can then use the reconnect button on BlueMaemo to connect to an already paired Mac.

Playstation 3

  • Remove any existent pairings between your phone/tablet and your Playstation 3 (in both devices).
  • Start BlueMaemo and select "Wait for connection".
  • On the PS3 go to the menu Settings > Accessory Settings > Manage Bluetooth Devices and press Register New Device and Start Scanning.
  • Pair the devices.

Tested Devices

  • N800
  • N810
  • N900

Tested Bluetooth stacks

Working

  • Linux BlueZ.
  • Windows XP SP2 and SP3 – default stack and blue soleil stack.
  • Windows XP Media Center Edition – default stack and Toshiba Bluetooth stack.
  • Windows Vista
  • Mac OSX 10.5.6
  • PlayStation 3

Not working

  • Nokia’s S60 – tested with an Nokia Navigator.

Known issues

Report a bug

You can report bugs here.

Request a feature

You can request new features here (select ‘enhancement’ in the severity field)

Videos

News

Add here articles about BlueMaemo.

Retrieved from "http://wiki.maemo.org/Bluemaemo"