September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 39m
English
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Controlling XMMS with Bluetooth
Use your Bluetooth device to control your music remotely under Linux.
If you have a mobile Bluetooth device that you’d like to use to control XMMS in Linux, you may be in luck. There are actually a couple of applications out there that use a WAP-like serial interface to Ericsson’s T-series phones (including the T68i and the T39m) to configure them for use as XMMS remote controls.
The first of the two is a standalone Ruby-based application called
bluexmms
, which is available from
http://linuxbrit.co.uk/bluexmms/.
Make sure
your phone is paired ([Hack #16]) with the
Bluetooth interface on your computer. Install
bluexmms, and then use
rfcomm to bind an RFCOMM device to channel 2 on
the T68i, which is (oddly) the T68’s
“generic telephony” service.
Next, run bluexmms /dev/rfcomm1 on your device,
substituting the name of the RFCOMM device you just created. You
should now be able to go to Accessories/XMMS
Remote on your phone’s menu, and voila!
A second, but very similar approach, involves an
XMMS plugin called
btexmms, which can be downloaded from
http://www.lyola.com/bte/. Build and install the
plugin, and create an RFCOMM device on channel 2, as just described.
Then, go into the XMMS preferences menu, and under Effects
→
General Plugins, enable
and configure the BTE Control plugin. Set the device to whatever
RFCOMM device you created for this purpose, and save your changes.
Now you should be able to access the remote control from
Accessories/XMMS ...
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