Other Debian tips

Debian requires a passkey-agent to run, instead of the pinhelper app, which used to be used before.

Thus if you want to make a bluetooth connection and for instance pair with your phone, you need to have this agent running to monitor outgoing pin requests.

A passkey-agent comes with the bluez-utils package, but it's not compiled.

It's in the /usr/share/doc/bluez-utils/examples/ directory. Cd to it, unzip the passkey-agent.c file and compile it. Put the resultant passkey-agent file somewhere in your path.

Now, before making a connection to your phone, run the passkey-agent by:

Then you can connect to and pair with your phone. If you then authorize the computer on the phone to connect without confirmation, you do not have to run passkey-agent before connecting again.

Finally, kill passkey-agent by: