• PS3 Bluetooth Remote support. A very special thanks to walmis (blueman developer)
  
• Fixed minor bugs and redesigned the questions asked on installation
  

1. Discover the remote
   
2. Enumerates a list of bluetooth devices and automatically selects the PS3 BD Remote
   
3. Sets up pairing
   
4. Connects it as a input device
   

flxfxp Wrote:Copied from the XBMScript thread:
UPDATE 10-02-2009

• PS3 Bluetooth Remote support. A very special thanks to walmis (blueman developer)
  
• Fixed minor bugs and redesigned the questions asked on installation
  

XBMScript is the first program that has ps3 bluetooth remote support integrated and does not require the tedious process of having a Graphical Desktop (such as GNOME) just to run the blueman-applet

For this feature I would like to give a special shout out to:
walmis: for the ps3_pair program. Without him the ps3 remote pairing would be a lot more difficult! Be sure to check out http://blueman-project.org for the best bluetooth applet on GNOME!
kubax: for all the brainstorming and bluez headaches we shared together
ruff: ps3 remote powersaving and keymapping patches

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It have been a couple of very long days, but I shall explain the technical details here so that you can all enjoy easy ps3 remote usage.

I've had a long and entertaining brainstorm session with kubax to get the ps3 remote initially working with xbmc. During this we discovered that the latest version of bluez supports ps3 remote keymapping and powersaving out of the box! We don't know if ruff's patches got accepted upstream, but this also fixed the problem that kubax had with his remote after he disconnected and reconnected his remote.
This process was done using the latest bluez from the official ubuntu repository and the blueman applet.

After this got figured out I started working on a now graphical way of discovering and pairing the remote. I soon discovered that this was completely impossible with its current commandline tools.
Since the blueman-applet is in fact capable of properly creating the connection and setting up authorization and the input device I decided to have a chat with walmis the maintainer of blueman and owner of http://blueman-project.org.

His help has been very generous and he created a python program that uses the bluez API to:

1. Discover the remote
   
2. Enumerates a list of bluetooth devices and automatically selects the PS3 BD Remote
   
3. Sets up pairing
   
4. Connects it as a input device
   

The only issue that remains with the remote setup is that it can't redirect uinput by default. This is circumvented by first running "modprobe uinput" before starting bluetoothd.
To archieve this i removed bluetooth as a service and added "modprobe uinput" and "bluetoothd" to rc.local.
Not all buttons work, but I believe this will be fixed soon enough when ruff's keymapping patch gets accepted at the bluez source. However, the most important buttons (navigation, video buttons) do work.

To easily install the ps3 bluetooth remote without XBMScript use this script:

Code:

      apt-get install bluez -y
      wget http://flx.me/script/ps3_pair.tar.gz
      tar -xzvf ps3_pair.tar.gz
      echo -e '\E[1;37m\033[1mHold the ENTER and START key remote for 7 seconds after pressing any key\033[0m'
      echo Press a key to continue
      read -n1 any_key
      verify="n"
      while [ "$verify" != y ]
      do
      python ps3_pair.py
      echo "Did the Remote got detected and set up? If no, it shall repeat the process(y/n)"
      read verify
      done
      echo "PS3 Remote installation succesful, press any key to reboot"
      read -n1 any_key
      update-rc.d -f bluetooth remove
      echo modprobe uinput > /etc/rc.local
      echo /usr/sbin/bluetoothd >> /etc/rc.local
      echo "exit 0" >> /etc/rc.local
      reboot

Any questions I'll be happy to answer

Regards,

Dennis

Quote: python ps3_pair.py
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on org.bluez:/: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ps3_pair.py", line 90, in <module>
Main()
File "ps3_pair.py", line 18, in __init__
self.adapter = self.manager.GetAdapter()
File "/home/davidcam/bluez/utils.py", line 28, in warp
raise errors.parse_dbus_error(exception)
bluez.errors.DBusServiceUnknownError: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files

flxfxp Wrote:This doesn't need gnome at all, that was the intention. I tested with python 2.6.2. Are you running python 3?

flxfxp Wrote:This means that bluez isnt installed or running.

flxfxp Wrote:ok, so that isn't the problem. Have you just used the script or copied bits and pieces?
Because it has problems if uinput hasnt been ran before. do a "modprobe uinput" and after that start "bluetoothd -nd". Start bashing some buttons and see what is the outcome.

flxfxp Wrote:What distro are you using?

By the way, does anyone know how to make deb packages? I'd like to make a deb package out of the latest bluez with the patches applied for easy usage.

adrian Wrote:Tried your short script on my xbmc system it seemed to work and paired the remote but like dc2447 buttons do nothing. I am running up to date Jaunty but apt reports the latest bluez version as 4.32 this seems too old to have any of the newer patches. Do I need a newer version? You post says that it works with latest official Ubuntu version and it looks like dc2447 is running bluez 4.51.