Automatically connect with Bluetooth when in range of PC

[Guest pwhooftman2]

I''ve got Activesync over Bluetooth working from my SPV-C500 (which is an achievement on its own....).

However, i would like to walk into the room, and as soon as i'm in range of my BT-USB Dongle on my PC, it would be ideal if a BT connection was made, so Activesync can start synching at the defined intervals in the peak-times as defined in the 'mobile schedule'.

I'm getting tired of pressing Begin, More, Activesync, Menu, 3 Connect via Bluetooth every time....

I've come up with the following idea:

1. What if it's possible to call the 3 "Connect via Bluetooth" menu option directly from a shortcut (like is possible in PocketPC, e.q. making a .lnk to the command Windowscplmain.cpl,-5070 to directly invoke the backlight settings tab)

2. Then schedule this link with the crontab feature of Xbar to fire every x minutes during office hours so my SPV-C500 tries every x minutes to establish a connection.

3. Then, if Activesync didn't kick in oalready, the 'mobile schedule' can do its work and try to sync, which should succeed because in the meanwhile, a BT connection should be present.

Any ideas if this is possible.?

greetings from pieter

[Guest kyrkesmith]

Yeah, I've encoutered this with my iPaq. It's bloody annoying, and is apparantly "by design", because it wastes battery or something....

Sounds a plausible solution you propose (if it doesn't affect your batter too much), it's just that link that might be the issue.

[Guest chucky.egg]

That would be cool, but it all rests on being able to link to the "Connect via BT" bit...

I'll have a poke around, but I'm no expert.

Maybe someone like Midnight can help (I think he's the guy for tweaks and such)

[Guest DonKraft]

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Did anybody ever get this to work?

[Guest Confucious]

Some people have been able to initiate the connection from the computer (I'm not one of them) using the Widcomm drivers. Sureley all that is needed is a simple routine running on the PC to check to see if a BT device is in range (possibly condirming the device name) and initiate the connection if it finds it. Not being a programmer it is beyond me but I wouldn't have thought it would be to difficult to write (famous last words!) but would it use to many system resources?

I don't know (but then there's lot's I don't know :lol:).