Anyone gotten Bluetooth Proximity to work?

[stuck]

Hi Ward,
Thanks, I did that during the install, but nonetheless, did it again. Restarted the computer. Waited awhile and checked the log...
again, it seem like that line is skipped in crontab.

Well,
It turns out I changed the time from 6-21 to 7-24 and that didn't work. Changing it back to 7-23 worked.

 

[wifinetguy]

Does anyone find that you're iPhone doesn't always show up? When I go into Settings>General>Bluetooth it goes into discovery and shows up great on the "hcitool scan" command. However, once I leave that screen and go to the home screen, it doesn't show up on the scan anymore.

 

[wardmundy]

Keep in mind that you're only doing the scan to find the info. Once you have that, you'll never use it again. We found that sometimes it took several scans to pick up the iPhone. Not sure why.

 

[baldbrad]

Hi Ward,
Thanks, I did that during the install, but nonetheless, did it again. Restarted the computer. Waited awhile and checked the log...
again, it seem like that line is skipped in crontab.

Well,
It turns out I changed the time from 6-21 to 7-24 and that didn't work. Changing it back to 7-23 worked.

You can't use 24 in crontab, you have to use 0. I'm suprised cron didn't bitch about it.

 

[jalapeno]

For some reason its not working for me, when I run the script manually I get this error:

Iphone.now IN - Update Required
Tue Aug 12 10:23:30 EDT 2008
cp: cannot stat `/root/notnull.file': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/root/notnull.file': No such file or directory
Database entry does not exist.


Anyone know what this means? I'm using the gpc2 ISO install.

 

[jalapeno]

For some reason its not working for me, when I run the script manually I get this error:

Iphone.now IN - Update Required
Tue Aug 12 10:23:30 EDT 2008
cp: cannot stat `/root/notnull.file': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `/root/notnull.file': No such file or directory
Database entry does not exist.


Anyone know what this means? I'm using the gpc2 ISO install.

I figured it out, for some reason the files it was trying to cp were missing, now it works.

 

[kwest]

The link wget http://nerdvittles.com/trixbox123/proximity.zip just yelds a 404 error, how is this done with PIF? the instructios refer to trixbox

 

[wardmundy]

I'm not getting a 404 error. Try again. Just follow the old directions. It works fine.

 

[stuck]

Does running 2 of the proximity scripts every minute cause the bluetooth adapter errors since the adapter is busy with the first command and is unable to run the second?
my cronjob is setup like this

* 1-23 * * * root /root/proximity > /dev/null
* 1-23 * * * root /root/proximity1 > /dev/null

should I run one of them every 2 min?

 

[wardmundy]

I don't know enough about Bluetooth to tell you whether it can handle two things at once. To be safe, I'd run the scripts at odd minute and even minute 2-minute intervals. If that fixes it, you'll know.

00/2 1-23 * * * root /root/proximity > /dev/null
01/2 1-23 * * * root /root/proximity1 > /dev/null

 

[stuck]

Thanks Ward,
tried
00/2 ...
01/2 ...
for a whole day but didn't work on my system. Cron log doesn't even show those running.
had to change it to:
0,2,4,6,8,... etc
1,3,5,7,9,... etc
Now my bt proximity works fine.