[TriLUG] bluetooth mouse goes unconcious if you walk away

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Bill Farrow wrote:

> Joe,
> Have you tried running the hidd daemon util in server mode ?

Hot damn. It works. It's better than windows :-)

I tried server mode at the w/s on satuday, expecting it 
would find the hid, but it didn't. You then suggested hidd 
--search, which found the hid.

I thought I was home at that stage, but I hadn't thought 
about the mouse parking. Not knowing what server mode was 
about, and with the mouse appearing to work, I forgot all 
about server mode.

> Maybe it keeps track of paired hid devices when they come 
> and go.  It does not make sense to have to manually 
> re-connect to the BT mouse every time it wakes up.

yes, but that doesn't mean they've figured out how to do it 
yet.

When the bt mouse is moved (to wake it up), what does it do 
that the hidd is listening for? I take it that it doesn't 
have to be paired again.

Thanks
Joe

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