1.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Maksim Yevmenkin <m_evmenkin@yahoo.com> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $Id: bthidd.8,v 1.1 2006/09/07 21:36:55 max Exp $ 26.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd September 7, 2006 29.Dt BTHIDD 8 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm bthidd 33.Nd Bluetooth HID daemon 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Nm 36.Fl h 37.Nm 38.Op Fl a Ar BD_ADDR 39.Op Fl c Ar file 40.Op Fl H Ar file 41.Op Fl p Ar file 42.Op Fl t Ar val 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46daemon handles remote Bluetooth HID devices. 47.Pp 48The options are as follows: 49.Bl -tag -width indent 50.It Fl a Ar BD_ADDR 51Specify the local address to listen on. 52By default, the server will listen on 53.Dv ANY 54address. 55The address can be specified as BD_ADDR or name. 56If a name was specified, the 57.Nm 58daemon will attempt to resolve the name via 59.Xr bt_gethostbyname 3 . 60.It Fl c Ar file 61Specify path to the configuration file. 62The default path is 63.Pa /etc/bluetooth/bthidd.conf . 64.It Fl d 65Do not detach from the controlling terminal, i.e., run in foreground. 66.It Fl H Ar file 67Specify path to the known HIDs file. 68The default path is 69.Pa /var/db/bthidd.hids . 70.It Fl h 71Display usage message and exit. 72.It Fl p Ar file 73Specify path to the PID file. 74The default path is 75.Pa /var/run/bthidd.pid . 76.It Fl t Ar val 77Specify client rescan interval in seconds. 78The 79.Nm 80daemon will periodically scan for newly configured Bluetooth HID devices or 81disconnected 82.Dq passive 83Bluetooth HID devices and will attempt to establish an outgoing connection. 84The default rescan interval is 10 seconds. 85.El 86.Sh KNOWN LIMITATIONS 87The 88.Nm 89daemon currently does not handle key auto repeat and double click mouse events. 90Those events work under 91.Xr X 7 92just fine, 93but not in text console. 94.Pp 95This manual page needs more work. 96A manual page documenting the format of the 97.Pa /etc/bluetooth/bthidd.conf 98configuration file is needed as well. 99.Sh FILES 100.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/bluetooth/bthidd.conf" -compact 101.It Pa /etc/bluetooth/bthidd.conf 102.It Pa /var/db/bthidd.hids 103.It Pa /var/run/bthidd.pid 104.El 105.Sh SEE ALSO 106.Xr kbdmux 4 , 107.Xr vkbd 4 , 108.Xr bthidcontrol 8 109.Sh AUTHORS 110.An Maksim Yevmenkin Aq m_evmenkin@yahoo.com 111.Sh CAVEATS 112Any Bluetooth HID device that has 113.Dv HUP_KEYBOARD 114or 115.Dv HUP_CONSUMER 116entries in its descriptor is considered as 117.Dq keyboard . 118For each 119.Dq keyboard 120Bluetooth HID device, 121the 122.Nm 123daemon will use a separate instance of the virtual keyboard interface 124.Xr vkbd 4 . 125Therefore the 126.Xr kbdmux 4 127driver must be used to properly multiplex input from multiple keyboards. 128