Trying to revive 'ubtd' (Bluetooth file transfer)

[gpatel-fr]

@lduboeuf said:

on 24.04.2 and 26.04 obexd is now auto started

I think it was backported to stable.

[Keneda]

@domubpkm
I guess you know but for larger files than few MB, and/or for larger sbandwich, plus all files support, you have wifi transfert.

[gpatel-fr]

@Keneda said:

sandwich

bandwidth I guess

[Keneda]

@gpatel-fr
WOW another "autocorrection" that passed my vigilance

[PhAndersson]

@lduboeuf said:

FYI, on 24.04.2 and 26.04 obexd is now auto started

That's good to know -- thanks!

[gpatel-fr]

@PhAndersson

I have just switched my phone back to 24.04-1.3 and obex is definitely started automatically.

[PhAndersson]

@gpatel-fr said:

@PhAndersson

I have just switched my phone back to 24.04-1.3 and obex is definitely started automatically.

Not in my case (Volla Quintus upgraded to 24.04-1.3 from 20.04/OTA-12). obexd is not started by default, but Ratatoskr is still able to start it transparently, so the end result is the same.

But the Quintus is currently unable to successfully connect over BT to my laptop (or another UT phone, for that matter) -- see Noble bluetooth issues -- so I'm a bit stuck in my plans to validate Ratatoskr on Noble at the moment.

[gpatel-fr]

@PhAndersson said:

(Volla Quintus upgraded to 24.04-1.3 from 20.04/OTA-12). obexd is not started by default,

that's strange.

What's the output of

systemctl --user cat obex

and

systemctl --user status obex

(obviously do this after a phone restart)

[PhAndersson]

@gpatel-fr said:

@PhAndersson said:

(Volla Quintus upgraded to 24.04-1.3 from 20.04/OTA-12). obexd is not started by default,

that's strange.

What's the output of

systemctl --user cat obex

# /usr/lib/systemd/user/obex.service
[Unit]
Description=Bluetooth OBEX service

[Service]
Type=dbus
BusName=org.bluez.obex
ExecStart=/usr/libexec/bluetooth/obexd

[Install]
Alias=dbus-org.bluez.obex.service

# /usr/lib/systemd/user/obex.service.d/ubuntu-touch-session.conf
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/libexec/bluetooth/obexd -P ftp,irmc,mas,pcsuite -r $HOME

and

systemctl --user status obex

○ obex.service - Bluetooth OBEX service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/obex.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/obex.service.d
             └─ubuntu-touch-session.conf
     Active: inactive (dead)

I also checked 'journal' for any OBEX-related message, but there aren't any.

[gpatel-fr]

@PhAndersson

you are correct, I missed that because I'm mostly on 26.02 these days. I switched back briefly to 24.04 stable and I could repro.
It's probably a service order start problem since starting obex manually succeeds, I will have to investigate it.