stobbsc | # 41 | 2010-02-09, 16:34 | Report

Indeed I'm happy to work on a little app now that I have the base of the code :-)

P.S it will take time, cause I'm new to Maemo dev. but I will try and app name searching as well.

robota | # 42 | 2010-02-09, 16:45 | Report

Let me know if you got it to work - this is just a little Bash script to do the work, basically this is what it does:

1. execute hcitool command to get a list of all devices
2. use the awk to filter out the lines with 'BD Address' in it
3. use grep to see if we have a match
4. use dbus-send to display an alert if there is a match

Cheers, Arne

stobbsc | # 43 | 2010-02-09, 17:02 | Report

after I've moved it to ~/
I then ran you chmod 755 ~/N900finder.sh

Then when I run
~/N900finder.sh
I get on the next line
/bin/sh: /home/user/N900finder.sh: not found

am I doing something wrong?

robota | # 44 | 2010-02-09, 18:15 | Report

the path to bash in the first line is prob. incorrect. just try placing sh in front like:

sh ~/N900finder.sh

and it should work.

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Last edited by robota; 2010-02-09 at 18:53.

stobbsc | # 45 | 2010-02-09, 19:03 | Report

oKI added another lap to the code then typed this:
sh ~/N900finder.sh

Then it returns this:
: not found N900finder: line 4:
: not found N900finder: line 4:

robota | # 46 | 2010-02-09, 19:41 | Report

OK, without modification it doesn't compain?

Line #4 should read like:

grep '00:BD:3A\|00:BD:3B'`;

Notice the \| as a separator and the '`; (quote, backtick, semicolon) at the end of the line. You should be able to add as many laps as you like as long as they have the \| in between. If you still have troubles pm me as it might be out of scope to discuss that here - all I can say is that the code runs on my N900 ... or mail me: arne at robota dot nl.

Lord Awesome | # 47 | 2010-02-09, 22:52 | Report

I had the same issue as above, so I trimmed the whitespace and took the line breaks out and it works.

stobbsc | # 48 | 2010-02-10, 09:32 | Report

I copied the code above and added one more section so it look slike this:

and I get the following errors:
:not found N900finder.sh:line 2:

:not found N900finder.sh:line 3:
:not found N900finder.sh:line 7: syntax error: "fi" unexpected (expecting "then")

Please not this when I'm not expecting to find a device. perhaps thats why there is an error, could someone try my code please.

robota | # 49 | 2010-02-10, 12:42 | Report

Add the path to the correct directory for the commands hcitool, awk, grep, echo and dbus-send like:

/usr/bin/hcitool

Lord Awesome | # 50 | 2010-02-10, 13:02 | Report

Your addition works for me. What editor are you using to create N900finder.sh?