[libhid-discuss] Can libhid be used to create a "virtual" Bluetooth device?

[Chip Wachob]

Thank you Charles.  I'm sorry I missed the distinction you've outlined.
Hopefully this will help the next person who thinks the libhid is the place
to go.

Cheers,

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 9:48 AM, Charles Lepple <clepple at ghz.cc> wrote:

> On Feb 10, 2017, at 8:48 AM, Chip Wachob wrote:
>
>
> Hopefully the Bluetooth group doesn't send me back to HID.
>
>
> The distinction is that this particular libhid was designed to interface
> with USB HID devices (uninterruptible power supplies, servo control boards,
> etc.) that do not fit into the traditional input peripheral model (yet
> still use HID over USB).
>
> Bluetooth adopted the HID model for traditional input devices (keyboard,
> mouse, headsets with buttons, etc.), and the fact that many Bluetooth
> adapters use USB is merely coincidence. In that case, USB is one of the
> transport layers for Bluetooth, and Bluetooth is the transport layer for
> HID. Oversimplified for sure, but contrast with libhid, which was using USB
> as the transport layer for non-keyboard/mouse HID, and has no connection to
> any of the Bluetooth protocol stack (including SDP).
>
> There seem to be a number of step-by-step guides if you do a web search
> for "emulate Bluetooth Linux".
>
> --
> - Charles Lepple
> https://ghz.cc/charles/
>
>
>
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