Table of Contents

  1. Usage
  2. General
  3. General ToDo
  4. Startup
  5. BluetoothRadio
    1. Radio turned off
    2. Hardware unplugged
  6. BluetoothDeviceInfo
    1. BluetoothDeviceInfo.GetServiceRecords
      1. General Records
      2. General -- All Records
  7. BluetoothClient
    1. Connect
      1. Connect to 0x1105, with OBEX response received
      2. Connect to 0x1105, with no OBEX response received
      3. Connect to 0x1106, with no OBEX response received
  8. NetworkStream
  9. BluetoothListener
  10. BluetoothSecurity
  11. ObexWebRequest
  12. ObexListener

Usage

  1. Support is now included in the main library and enabled by default.
  2. Check whether BluetoothRadio.PrimaryRadio and/or BluetoothRadio.AllRadios are non-empty, and that one has SoftwareManufacter containing a BlueSoleil value.
  3. Check what's in the trace.log file. It should contain something like the following. 
    BlueSoleil Btsdk_Init: OK=0x0000
Num factories: 1, Primary Factory: BlueSoleilFactory
  4. See below for what is and isn’t supported.

General

This is a a summary see below for the details of each classes supported methods and properties.

There is good support for BluetoothRadio, BluetoothDeviceInfo including RSSI, and device discovery including ‘live’ discovery. There is no support for BluetoothListener (there seems to be no BlueSoleil API), and there is only partial support for SDP querying (returns both partial records and partial attributes). BluetoothSecurity.RemoveDevice is supported, but more work is needed for PairRequest.

BluetoothClient.Connect is supported for RFCOMM/SPP connections. However connections can’t be made to profiles that BlueSoleil supports directly, for instance an RFCOMM connection to OBEX Push isn’t possible. Nor is it it possible to make a connection to a specific RFCOMM port number. BluetoothClient.Authenticate, Encrypt are not supported (no API support), and we haven’t looked at support for SetPin.

Data transfer (for BluetoothClient) is somewhat lacking in comparison with the other stacks as it doesn’t use Sockets nor has it an data transfer API like Widcomm. Instead it creates a virtual COM port for each connection, and that’s what we have to use. It creates a number of problems, firstly when there’s no data in the buffer for Read we would expect Read to block but instead we get an IO error, so we have to workaround that. Then on Write there seems a lack of flow control, we now internally split any any big writes into smaller chunks and in testing that seems to stop data being lost.

Due to the various restrictions above ObexWebRequest and ObexListener are not supported currently. It should be possible at least to support ObexWebRequest by internally using the BlueSoleil OBEX API directly, something for the future, and volunteers welcomed.

To check if BlueSoleil support is being loaded, check whether BluetoothRadio.PrimaryRadio or AllRadios returns a radio and whether its SoftwareManufacturer is a enum value of IvtBlueSoleil.

Please let me have any feedback.

Multi-stack

This stack does work when the Microsoft stack is present/active. However the Microsoft stack then seems not to work though. That's on a Windows 7 box with BlueSoleil version 5.X.X.X. Let me know if you find otherwise.

General TODO

(Test) To Do:

  1. Odd threading, call Connect, Discovery, etc from all sorts of wierd threads.
  2. Does the RegisterCallback need to be re-done after PowerOff, 'power-on'?
    BtCli.Connect, PowerOff, 'power-on', BtCli.Connect
    No, for Connect at least after on->PowerOff-> we see the connect event.
  3. NetworkStream connected, but Disconnect when Off. Connection closes at off??

Implementation To Do:

  1. SetServiceState — for HID, SPP, etc?
    Perhaps many services can be handled this way as BlueSoleil handles general Connect calls for known services as requests to start that profile handler (does for OPP and FTP at least).
    For disable, "Enum" the connections and disable the one with the respective Class Id?
  2. Redo startup.
  3. Use Btsdk_IsServerConnected.
  4. In Debug build, lots of "BlueSoleil Btsdk_Init: OK" when radio off and calling various actions.

Startup

To Do:

  1. What if radio (dongle) is un-plugged?
  2. What if radio is disabled? Is it automatically re-enabled, like Widcomm?
Test Result
Radio (dongle) is un-plugged Stack is not loaded
Radio is disabled It does not turn-on automatically. Instead use Radio.set_Mode to enable it.
Note we don't turn the radio on at any operation (as of r78137+).

BluetoothRadio

To Do:

  1. Mode 1) BothOff 2) BothOn 3) !Disco&NotConno
  2. Change radio Name. 32feet sees?
  3. Set Name; ex?
  4. Set Mode; ex?
  5. Radio turned off
  6. Hardware unplugged
  7. Double-check Off->Connectable transition.

See the two tables after this one for the values of the properties when the radio is disabled or un-plugged.

Test Expected (BlueSoleil UI) Result
ClassOfDevice ClassOfDevice { get; } 0x120104, from Remote Discovery 120104
device: DesktopComputer / service: Network, ObjectTransfer
IntPtr Handle { get; } NotSupported
HardwareStatus HardwareStatus { get; } ✔
int LmpSubversion { get; } 4203 => decimal 16910 16910
BluetoothAddress LocalAddress { get; } 00:19:0E:02:C9:16 00:19:0E:02:C9:16
Manufacturer Manufacturer { get; } Broadcom Corporation Broadcom
RadioMode Mode { get; … Connectable & Discoverable:
  • No & Yes
  • Yes & Yes
  • No & No
  • No & Yes!!
 Results:
  • Connectable
  • Discoverable
  • PowerOff
  • PowerOff
        set; } Results:
  • PowerOff ✔
  • Connectable ✔
  • Discoverable ✔
string Name { get; … alanlt2w alanlt2w
        set; } ✘ NotImplemented
Manufacturer SoftwareManufacturer { get; } IvtBlueSoleilXxxx

Radio turned off

Property Value
HardwareStatus Shutdown
Mode PowerOff
Name empty (String.Empty)
Address empty (BluetoothAddress.None)
Status of other properties is undefined.

Hardware unplugged

Property Value
HardwareStatus NotPresent
Mode PowerOff
Name empty (String.Empty)
Address empty (BluetoothAddress.None)
Status of other properties is undefined.

BluetoothDeviceInfo

To Do:

  1. DeviceName read, change name on remote device, check DeviceName is updated after a call to Refresh.
  2. LastSeen.

To Do, for created-from:

  1. By Discovery — Remembered.
  2. By Discovery — Authenticated.
  3. By Address — Get a Remembered device.
  4. By Address — Get a Authenticated device.
  5. By Address — Get a Non-existent device.
  6. By Address — Get an Unknown but in-range Device.
  7. By Discovery — DiscoOnly.
  8. By Discovery — Unknown.
  9. By Discovery — All devices.
  10. By ‘Live’ Discovery — All devices.

Test Notes

  1. May want to check Remembered list from Discovery at each step so see when that stack adds remembers devices.
  2. Check timings of “by Address” cases.
Test Result
bool Authenticated { get; } ✔
ClassOfDevice ClassOfDevice { get; } ✔
bool Connected { get; } ✔
BluetoothAddress DeviceAddress { get; } ✔
string DeviceName { get; … ✔
                                   set; } ✔
byte[][] GetServiceRecordsUnparsed(Guid service); ✘ NotSupported
ServiceRecord[] GetServiceRecords(Guid service); ✔ See below.
Guid[] InstalledServices { get; } ✘ NotImplemented
DateTime LastSeen { get; } ??????
DateTime LastUsed { get; } ✘ Returns DateTime.MinValue.
void Refresh(); ✔ Resets DeviceName alone.
bool Remembered { get; } ✔
int Rssi { get; } ✔ Needs a connection to the remote device to work.
void SetServiceState(Guid service, bool state,
bool throwOnError); 		✔ Tested working for SerialPort and PAN for both enabling and disabling — can disable a connection created by the BlueSoleil UI (and presumably a connection opened by BluetoothClient too, beware!! TODO fix).
Test for HID, and others?
void SetServiceState(Guid service, bool state);
void ShowDialog(); ✘ NotImplemented
void Update(); ✘ NotImplemented

Notes

  1. * MSFT+Win32 to Widcomm(000aaa6865bb):1101
    System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The specified service does not exist as an installed service
    at InTheHand.Net.Sockets.WindowsBluetoothDeviceInfo.SetServiceState(Guid service, Boolean state, Boolean throwOnError)
    *

BluetoothDeviceInfo.GetServiceRecords

To Do:

  1. Query AllRecords (query class: L2CAP) with various remote records including one RFCOMM server running with a non-SIG-format service class id.
  2. No matching records (e.g query class e.g. ReferencePrinting=0x1119)
  3. Device not in range.
  4. (Query for the SIG-format Class of a running remote service).
  5. (Query for the UUID of Protocol Descr List e.g. BNEP (though L2CAP is like this).
  6. Query for the non-SIG-format Class of a running remote service.
  7. View a HID record.
  8. View a PnP/DeviceInfo record.

Known flaws:

General Records

Test Result Error code on MSFT+Win32
Query for a SIG-format Class of a running remote service ✔
Query for no matching records
(Use a UUID not present on the remote device, e.g. "ReferencePrinting 0x1119".
Expect: See an empty result and not an exception). 		✔
Query for a custom (non-SIG-format) Class of a running remote service ✘ Returns zero records.
Device not in range ✔ TimedOut SHOULD 10108 10108 (WSASERVICE_NOT_FOUND)

General -- All Records

Running SdpCreateTwoSppRecordsOneWithAvailAndBrowse e.g. on Widcomm, run SdpQuery/AllRecords on SdpBrowser BlueSoleil.

ServiceName: 'Bluetooth Serial Port'
ServiceClasses: 0x1101 SerialPort
Channel Num: 1

ServiceName: 'Network Access'
ServiceClasses: 0x1117 GN
Channel Num: <not assigned>

ServiceName: 'Network Access'
ServiceClasses: 0x1115 Panu
Channel Num: <not assigned>

ServiceName: 'Dial-up Networking'
ServiceClasses: 0x1103 DialupNetworking
Channel Num: 2

ServiceName: 'File Transfer'
ServiceClasses: 0x1106 ObexFileTransfer
Channel Num: 4

ServiceName: 'Fax'
ServiceClasses: 0x1111 Fax
Channel Num: 5

ServiceName: 'PIM Synchronization'
ServiceClasses: 0x1104 IrMCSync
Channel Num: 6

ServiceName: 'Sync Command Service'
ServiceClasses: 0x1107 IrMCSyncCommand
Channel Num: 6

ServiceName: 'Headset'
ServiceClasses: 0x1108 Headset, 0x1203 GenericAudio
Channel Num: 7

ServiceName: 'Headset'
ServiceClasses: 0x111E Handsfree, 0x1203 GenericAudio
Channel Num: 8

ServiceName: 'Audio Gateway'
ServiceClasses: 0x1112 HeadsetAudioGateway, 0x1203 GenericAudio
Channel Num: 9

ServiceName: <none>
ServiceClasses: 0x1114 WapClient
Channel Num: 22

ServiceName: <none>
ServiceClasses: e665c159-4721-4e73-8e97-9a8be42423d9
Channel Num: 10
 
ServiceName: 'Bluetooth Serial Port'
ServiceClasses: 0x1101 SerialPort
Channel Num: 1

ServiceName: 'Network Access'
ServiceClasses: 0x1117 GN
Channel Num: <not assigned>

ServiceName: 'Network Access'
ServiceClasses: 0x1115 Panu
Channel Num: <not assigned>

ServiceName: 'Dial-up Networking'
ServiceClasses: 0x1103 DialupNetworking
Channel Num: 2

ServiceName: 'File Transfer'
ServiceClasses: 0x1106 ObexFileTransfer
Channel Num: 4

ServiceName: 'Fax'
ServiceClasses: 0x1111 Fax
Channel Num: 5

ServiceName: 'PIM Synchronization'
ServiceClasses: 0x1104 IrMCSync
Channel Num: 6

ServiceName: 'Sync Command Service'
ServiceClasses: 0x1107 IrMCSyncCommand
Channel Num: 6

ServiceName: 'Headset'
ServiceClasses: 0x1108 Headset
Channel Num: 7

ServiceName: 'Headset'
ServiceClasses: 0x111E Handsfree
Channel Num: 8

ServiceName: 'Audio Gateway'
ServiceClasses: 0x1112 HeadsetAudioGateway
Channel Num: 9

ServiceName: <none>
ServiceClasses: 0x1114 WapClient
Channel Num: <not assigned>

Note: That's the result against Widcomm on WinXP. Against MSFT on WinXP the port for the WapClient service is correctly got.

BluetoothClient

To Do:

  1. xxxx
  2. xxxx
32feet.NET
BluetoothDeviceInfo[] DiscoverDevices(…) ✔ All/Rmbd/DiscoOnly/etc
BluetoothDeviceInfo[] Begin-/EndDiscoverDevices(…) ✔
TimeSpan InquiryLength { get; ✔
int InquiryAccessCode { get; set; } ✘ NotImplemented
void Connect(…); ✔ See details below.
void Begin-/EndConnect(…); ✔
bool Connected { get; } ✔ See NetworkStream below.
NetworkStream GetStream(); ✔
Socket Client { get; set; } ✘ NotSupported
int Available { get; } ✔
LingerOption LingerState { get; set; } ✘ NotImplemented
void Dispose(); ✔ (ToDo disallow/abort device discovery ).
bool Authenticate { get; … ✔ returns false
set; } ✘ NotSupported
bool Encrypt { get; … ✔ returns false
set; } ✘ NotSupported
void SetPin(string pin); ✘ NotImplemented
void SetPin(BluetoothAddress device, string pin); ✘ NotImplemented
Guid LinkKey { get; } ✘ NotImplemented
LinkPolicy LinkPolicy { get; } ✘ NotImplemented
string GetRemoteMachineName(BluetoothAddress) ✔
string RemoteMachineName { get; } ✔
BluetoothEndPoint RemoteEndPoint { get; } ✔

Discovery

See BluetoothDeviceInfo for discovery testing.

To Do:

  1. Run discovery in BlueSoleil UI -- any errors in library?
Test Result Error code on MSFT+Win32

Connect

BlueSoleil isn't terribly good at allowing direct RFCOMM connections. Firstly it doesn't have its own IO API, but instead sets-up a COM port for the application to use. Secondly for Bluetooth Profiles that it supports, it does not connect a COM Port, but instead the built-in support for that profile is activated. So for instance on connecting to OPP (0x1105) the remote server gets a connection and an OBEX CONNECT packet, only on CONNECT response (or timeout) does the connect call return, and no COM port is created.

Finally for the services that do create a COM port we have to handle two cases. Firstly the case where the connect call does update the “com_index” field in the struct with the COM port number. And secondly where it doesn't and then we try the Btsdk_GetClientPort call. Custom UUIDs and miscellaneous services use the former, but SerialPort (0x1101) needs the latter.

There are thus three paths in our connect code: “com_index” field is set, Btsdk_GetClientPort works, and neither so fail the connection.

To Do:

  1. Connect to a specific port.
  2. Service with non-SIG Class Id!
  3. Radio disconnected
  4. Radio/stack turned-off
  5. (Service doesn't have RFCOMM pdl)
  6. (No listener on port/channel specified in the Service Record)
  7. ((Channel in record is invalid e.g. 100))
  8. Connect to an OBEX service (OPP, and FTP), normal COM port connection created?
  9. Connect to a other well known services (maybe HSP, PBAP, etc), normal COM port connection created?
  10. Connect to server that has "require authentication" (and "require encryption"?).
Test Result Error code on MSFT+Win32
Service with SIG Class Id e.g. Wap ✔
Service with custom (non-SIG) Class Id
(Use BtLsnr->ListSomeCustomUuids) 		✔
Connect to a particular port number ✘ Need to re-test/investigate.
No Service with given Class Id ✔ [NO_SERVICE] todo! ...... ?10049
No Device with given Address ✔ SoEx TimedOut [PAGE_TIMEOUT] 10060 TimedOut
(Service doesn't have RFCOMM pdl) ✔ [OPERATION_FAILURE] ! 10064 HostDown
Already a connection to the RFCOMM port/channel ✔ [NO_SERVICE] Re-test TODO 10048 AddressAlreadyInUse
Connect to 0x1101 SerialPort ✔ This was broken prior to revision 85277.
Connect to 0x1105 OBEX Push ✘ Not supported by BlueSoleil
Connect to 0x1106 OBEX FTP ✘ Not supported by BlueSoleil
Connect to server that has "require authentication" ✐ [OPERATION_FAILURE] TODO Re-test

Connect to 0x1105, with OBEX response received

Connecting to: 008098244CA4:00001105-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb:-1 ...
Gonna Btsdk_ConnectAppExtSPPService with: BtSdkAppExtSPPAttrStru sdp_record_handle: 0x0 service_class_128: 00001105-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb svc_name: "\x00..." rf_svr_chnl: 0 com_index: 0.
HandleConnectionEventInd event: CONN_CFM, conn_hdl: 0x1C50FC8, arg.hDev: 0x1C60790
BlueSoleil LiveConns count: -2.
ret: OK, hConn: 0x1C50FC8, with: BtSdkAppExtSPPAttrStru sdp_record_handle: 0x0 service_class_128: 00001105-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb svc_name: "\x00..." rf_svr_chnl: 0 com_index: 0.
Fail: sppAttr.rf_svr_chnl: 0
HandleConnectionEventInd event: DISC_CFM, conn_hdl: 0x1C50FC8, arg.hDev: 0x1C60790
InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth.BlueSoleil.BlueSoleilException: Exception of type 'InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth.BlueSoleil.BlueSoleilException' was thrown. Error: OBEX_INDEX (0x600)
Fail: RemoveConnection
BlueSoleil LiveConns count: 0.

Connect to 0x1105, with no OBEX response received

Gonna Btsdk_ConnectAppExtSPPService with: BtSdkAppExtSPPAttrStru sdp_record_handle: 0x0 service_class_128: 00001105-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb svc_name: "\x00..." rf_svr_chnl: 0 com_index: 0.
ret: REQUEST_TIMEOUT, hConn: 0x0, with: BtSdkAppExtSPPAttrStru sdp_record_handle: 0x0 service_class_128: 00001105-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb svc_name: "\x00..." rf_svr_chnl: 0 com_index: 0.
InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth.BlueSoleil.BlueSoleilException: Exception of type 'InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth.BlueSoleil.BlueSoleilException' was thrown. Error: REQUEST_TIMEOUT (0x6C8)

Connect to 0x1106, with no OBEX response received

Gonna Btsdk_ConnectAppExtSPPService with: BtSdkAppExtSPPAttrStru sdp_record_handle: 0x0 service_class_128: 00001106-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb svc_name: "\x00..." rf_svr_chnl: 0 com_index: 0.
ret: OPERATION_FAILURE, hConn: 0x0, with: BtSdkAppExtSPPAttrStru sdp_record_handle: 0x0 service_class_128: 00001106-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb svc_name: "\x00..." rf_svr_chnl: 0 com_index: 0.
InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth.BlueSoleil.BlueSoleilException: Exception of type 'InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth.BlueSoleil.BlueSoleilException' was thrown. Error: OPERATION_FAILURE (0x302)

NetworkStream

To Do:

  1. Read when buffer empty. On standard BlueSoleil (& System.IO.SerialPort) this fails...
  2. Write an amount bigger than the buffer size. On standard BlueSoleil (& System.IO.SerialPort data is lost in this case...
  3. Read after local close.
  4. Write after local close.
  5. Is connection closed automatically on app exit?
  6. Is connection closed automatically on app crash GPF/etc?
  7. Is connection closed automatically on Radio Off?
  8. Is connection closed automatically on Radio Unplugged?
  9. Read after remote close when there is still data in the buffer.
  10. Pending Read through remote close when the remote sends data immediately before close.
  11. Finalizable? Drop references to client and stream and check that the connection closes.
    Do we need to change the Add/CloseAnyLiveConnections to not store a strong reference.
Test Expected Result
Read when buffer empty. On standard BlueSoleil (& System.IO.SerialPort) this fails... ✔
Write an amount bigger than the buffer size. On standard BlueSoleil (& System.IO.SerialPort) data is lost in this case... ✔
Read thru/after Remote Close Return zero. ✔
Write thru(if poss)/after Remote Close IOEx(SocketEx(WSAECONNABORTED)). ✔
Flush when not-open NetworkStream does not throw ObjectDisposedException. ✔
Client.Connected after local close ✔
Client.Connected after network close Should be false after the connection close and there's been a failing I/O operation. ✔ We have Connected=false as *soon* as the connection closes rather than only after an I/O operation.
Connections close at app exit? BlueSoleil doesn't automatically handle this.
Oh, how I wish they and Widcomm used real Windows Handles, and not their own ids. (Maybe it’s by design however, so that you can keep using the connection through its COM port after the creating application exits). 		✔ We use a CriticalFinalizerObject to close each open connection.
Connections close at Radio Off? BlueSoleil does NOT automatically handle this.
Writes do fail, but Reads block waiting for data. 		✔
Connections close at Radio Unplugged? BlueSoleil DOES automatically handle this. ✔
Read thru Local Close “System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: A blocking operation was interrupted by a call to WSACancelBlockingCall. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: A blocking operation was interrupted by a call to WSACancelBlockingCall” ✔
Read after Local Close “System.ObjectDisposedException: Cannot access a disposed object.
Object name: 'System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream'.” 		✔
Write after Local Close ObjectDisposedEx. ✔
Read after remote close when there is still data in the buffer. ✘ Doesn't return the data, only returns zero-length!
Pending Read through remote close when the remote sends data immediately before close. Get the data then zero-return. ✔
xxxx yyyy ✔ / ✘ zzzz

BluetoothListener

Not Supported. There seems to be no BlueSoleil API for server-side SPP/RFCOMM.

BluetoothSecurity

To Do:

  1. RemoveDevice
  2. RemoveDevice full remove?
  3. Test/implement PairRequest
Test Expected Result
PairRequest(BluetoothAddress device, string pin)
RemoveDevice(BluetoothAddress device) ✔ Does full remove: name and auth'd state etc are gone.
 
SetPin(BluetoothAddress device, string pin) ✘ NotImplemented
RevokePin(BluetoothAddress device) ✘ NotImplemented
 
BluetoothAddress GetPinRequest() ✘ NotImplemented. Is it supportable??
RefusePinRequest(BluetoothAddress device) ✘ NotImplemented. Is it supportable??
 
SetLinkKey(BluetoothAddress a, Guid linkkey) ✘ NotImplemented. Is it supportable??

ObexWebRequest

Not supported currently. Our default implementation doesn’t work because it uses a RFCOMM connection, and as noted above BlueSoleil doesn’t support such connections to don’t work to known Profiles. There might be a BlueSoleil OBEX API we could use instead. Volunteers welcomed.

ObexListener

Not supported currently. Our default implementation doesn’t work because as noted above there’s no BlueSoleil API for server-side SPP/RFCOMM. There might be a BlueSoleil OBEX-server API we could use instead. Volunteers welcomed.

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