Sms via bluetooth

Introduction

Well, what you need to do ? First you need to pair your phone with out pc using serial port emulation. Then you have to connect to the phone via hyperterminal or mimicom and by using AT Commands to send a message ;) IT's simple at that ;D

Windows

It's pretty simple in Windows OS. When you turn your bluetooth on pc on, pair your pc with your phone so you can browse phone's services. Then use serial port service what will connect to your phone. You should also get a message which com port is used as serial port emulation. Then simply start hyperterminal, set 9660bps, 8 bits, none parity, 1 stop bit and hardware flow control. Now enjoy using AT commands ( link at the bottom )

Linux

Bluetooth pairing

What would be probably a good idea would be to find out, which channel do your phone uses for serial port emulation. To do that, you need to start bluetooth subsystem/daemons. I do i by running "/etc/rc.d/bluetooth" but what does it do is that it runs these daemons: pand dund rfcomm hidd bluetoothd Of course, don't forget to switch it on :D

To find out the channel we need, use
sdptool browse <bdaddr>

Configuring serial port connection

This is really simple step, all you need to do is to edit /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf: ( now you will use the channel you were looking for at the beginning )

<enscript> rfcomm0 {

       bind yes;

1. # Automatically bind the device at startup
2. # Bluetooth address of the device

       device 00:22:FD:D6:29:77;

2. # RFCOMM channel for the connection

       channel 3;

2. # Description of the connection

       comment "Serial port emulation";

} </enscript>

Making serial port connection

Now is a good time to start/restart blutooth subsystems/daemons so new rfcommo configuration will take effect. First you need to find out bluetooth address of your phone, use "hcitool scan" to do that. To create serial link connection use:
rfcomm -i hciX connect <btaddr>

This should create a device /dev/rfcomm0. Also when you run rfcomm -a you should get an information that devices are connected.

Connecting to the phone

To connecto to the phone i used minicom. Just start the program and set 9660bps , 8 bits, no parity and 1 stop bit.and of course device /dev/rfcomm0. When connected you can begin using AT Commands.

Useful Links

http://www.spiration.co.uk/post/1307/Ubuntu%20Linux%20-%20Bluetooth%20and%20GPRS%20dialup%20connection http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/AT_Commands http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Using_AT_commands_to_send_and_read_SMS