get connected with infrared device in linux

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Using Ubuntu (known to work for Feisty and Gutsy), follow the instructions here. The only change to those instructions I needed to make was to set automatic="true' in irda-utils.

Then use the following script:

#! /bin/bash

# phone-connect. Copyright Brad Milne, 2007. Search for infrared phone
# and mount it using obexfs if available.

case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting connection to phone..."

#first restart irda-utils if phone not visible
grep nickname /proc/net/irda/discovery > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
/etc/init.d/irda-utils restart > /dev/null
fi
obexfs -i /mnt/phone

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
PHONE=$(grep nickname /proc/net/irda/discovery | sed -e 's/nickname: //' | cut -d, -f1)
echo "Connected to $PHONE"
else
echo "Connection failed. Does phone have infrared turned on?"
fi
;;
stop)
# 'stop' I haven't yet been able to implement due to restrictions
# on unmounting the fuse device. For now I use 'sudo umount /mnt/phone'
echo -n "Stopping connection to phone..."
/bin/fusermount -u /mnt/phone/
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Done"
else
echo "Failed. Was it connected?"
fi
;;
status)
ifconfig irda0 | grep irda0 > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Infrared device is active"

grep nickname /proc/net/irda/discovery > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
PHONE=$(grep nickname /proc/net/irda/discovery | sed -e 's/nickname: //' | cut -d, -f1)
echo "Currently connected to phone"

if [ $(ls -l /mnt/phone | wc -l) -gt 1 ]; then
echo "Phone files accessible at /mnt/phone"
else
echo "Phone not mounted"
fi
else
echo "Not connected to phone"
fi
else
echo "Infrared device not active. Is infrared device plugged in?"
fi
;;
*)
echo "Usage: phone-connect {start|stop|status}"
;;
esac


Then to make it runnable by any user, do a chmod 4711 as described here, on the script itself, obexfs, irda-utils, and on fusermount (which needs to be readable by all users also).

1 comments:

See my post here for a UI for this script.

Brad Milne said...
12:28 am  

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