Juja

I just mentioned rust as that was the first thing that came to my mind. I’ve not worked with it either. I am ok to take whatever direction you think is appropriate for the product. I just want to contribute to the tool since I was also looking for something like this in the past and I can see this tool being useful for me for my own personal projects. I can definitely help with the macos part if that’s what you need help in. Please feel free to DM me.

I have been looking for some client tool to interact with Bluetooth on windows. After a lot of searching, I came up empty so I bit the bullet and decided to code one myself and managed to create a small command line utility using C# .Net and it was surprisingly easy. It would have been so awesome if something like bluetuith had existed for windows so I’d be happy to contribute. I should point out though that I have not written any windows based app/tool ever and this was the first one so I would definitely have some learning and research to do. I mainly use a Mac for work and personal stuff so I can contribute for the Mac portion of it as well if required. As to the implementation itself, would it be viable to use something like rust which already has cross platform support so that the server component can just be a single codebase instead of platform specific?

Understood. Will do that. Thanks.

Please don’t crucify me but is there a way to do this on windows ? I just have a handheld gaming console that came with windows and it’s setup just the way I want but would be nice if I can also connect to Bluetooth using command line so that I can map it to playnite and have it automatically connect to my headphones when launching a game. I did a lot of research and tried some stuff like “Bluetooth command line tools” which worked a bit but somehow caused a lot of instability and caused crashes so had to stop using it.

1 Tbps ??? Or did you mean to say 1 Gbps / 1000 Mbps ?

In case you weren’t aware , you can disable internet in ps5 settings and launch the game and it won’t bother you. Had the same shit happen in AC Valhalla and it was so annoying turning internet off and on just to play this game. I would have been ok with this if at least the game worked the same after signing in but no … A whole class of online specific bugs started to show up ranging from stupid stutters to outright in game repeated popups whenever your player moves, it made the game unplayable so had to delete the whole game. I tried again later after a few months and the bug had been fixed so it was better but still had random stutters.

What’s wrong with 9 though ? Didn’t iPhone also skip 9 ?

It actually turned out to be easier than I thought.

The infrared reader (arduino code) is based on

https://github.com/Arduino-IRremote/Arduino-IRremote

The code running on my raspberry pi was written in Java using spring boot which is probably overkill but I am more comfortable with java than python so I used

https://github.com/Fazecast/jSerialComm

to read data from the pi’s usb port and just sent instructions to the unified remote server which does most of the heavy lifting. I used

https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/blob/main/bundles/org.openhab.binding.unifiedremote/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/unifiedremote/internal/UnifiedRemoteConnection.java

as a reference along with some verbose logging on the unified remote server to see what codes needed to be sent over the rest api.

Happy to help you along if you want to give this a go :)

I use it as a media remote for my computer via infrared. IR sensor sends analog data to an arduino which converts it to digital and sends it to a raspberry pi which then invokes commands to control media on my computer by invoking rest apis on a “unified remote” server running on the computer.

No not at all actually. Playnite does everything I want it to, but was just excited at the prospect of trying out a potential alternative to see if it looks better. The default theme of playnite looks a bit bland and I’ve tried quite a few themes but just couldn’t settle on one.

Also worth mentioning that it’s for mobiles, specifically android. At first glance I thought it was similar to playnite and got excited.

Edit : didn’t mean to insinuate that it’s not exciting as it is. Just wanted to point out that for people who are not looking for an android game launcher, this may not be useful.

Just curious, what about go or rust makes them the logical next choice and not java? What do go or rust do better that java doesn’t?

What would your language of choice have been? And why is java horrible for this scenario? it sounds like a reasonably good choice to me