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BTCONFIG(8) System Manager's Manual BTCONFIG(8)

NAME

btconfigconfigure bluetooth devices

SYNOPSIS

btconfig [-svz] [device [parameters]]

btconfig [-l]

DESCRIPTION

btconfig is used to configure Bluetooth devices. If the device is given, but no parameters, then btconfig will print information about the device. If no device is given, a basic list of devices will be printed.

When the -l flag is used, just the device names will be printed.

COMMANDS

The following parameters may be specified with btconfig:
up
Enable Bluetooth Device.
down
Disable Bluetooth Device.
pscan
Enable Page Scan. This enables incoming connections to the device.
-pscan
Disable Page Scan.
iscan
Enable Inquiry Scan. This puts the device in Discoverable mode.
-iscan
Disable Inquiry Scan.
encrypt
Enable encryption. This will cause the device to request encryption on all baseband connections, and will only work if authentication is also enabled.
-encrypt
Disable encryption.
auth
Enable authentication. This will cause the device to request authentication for all baseband connections.
-auth
Disable authentication.
switch
Enable Role Switching. In a Bluetooth piconet there is one Master and up to seven Slaves, and normally the device that initiates a connection will take the Master role. Enabling this option allows remote devices to switch connection roles.
-switch
Disable Role Switching.
master
Request the Master role when accepting connections.
-master
Do not request Master role.
hold
Enable Hold Mode.
-hold
Disable Hold Mode.
sniff
Enable Sniff Mode.
-sniff
Disable Sniff Mode.
park
Enable Park Mode.
-park
Disable Park Mode.
name name
Set human readable name of device.
ptype type
Set packet types. type is a 16 bit hex value specifying packet types that will be requested by outgoing ACL connections. By default, all packet types that the device supports are enabled, see bluetooth specifications for more information if you want to change this.
class class
Set class of device. class is a 6 digit hex value the value of which declares the device capabilities. See the “Assigned Numbers - Baseband” document at http://www.bluetooth.com/ for details of constructing a Class of Device value. As a starter, 0x020104 means Desktop Computer, with Networking available.
fixed
Set fixed pin type.
variable
Set variable pin type.
inquiry
Perform device Discovery from the specified device and print details.
imode type
Set inquiry mode type to control which event formats are generated during a device inquiry. The type can be:
std
Standard Inquiry Result Event format.
rssi
Enable Remote Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) in inquiry results. This will only work if the device features indicate <RSSI with inquiry result>.
ext
Inquiry Result with RSSI format or Extended Inquiry Result fomat. This will only work where the device features indicate <extended inquiry>, and the Extended Inquiry Result will only occur when the remote device provides the extended information.
reset
Perform a hard reset on the device and re-initialise system state.
voice
Set Voice Setting. [This should be 0x0060 for now]
pto
Set Page Timeout value. This is a decimal value in milliseconds, indicating how long the device will attempt to page another device when opening baseband connections.
scomtu
Change SCO mtu value. This is a decimal value, see ubt(4) for reasons why you may need to do this.

All parameters are parsed before any device operations take place. Each time the -v flag is given, verbosity levels will be increased.

Super-user privileges are required to change device configurations.

DIAGNOSTICS

Messages indicating the specified device does not exist, the requested address is unknown, or the user is not privileged and tried to alter an device's configuration.

HISTORY

The btconfig command was written for NetBSD 4.0 by Iain Hibbert under the sponsorship of Itronix, Inc.

BUGS

The output is very messy.
October 11, 2010 NetBSD 7.0