PS3HEN Bluetooth Communications?

[Mr.FiniteFields]

I am wanting to know if there is any current work on interfacing with the Bluetooth adapter. Is it out of reach for HEN? And if it "sort of works", what are the limitations?

 

[bguerville]

I am wanting to know if there is any current work on interfacing with the Bluetooth adapter. Is it out of reach for HEN? And if it "sort of works", what are the limitations?

That's too vague a question to answer.
What do you mean exactly by interfacing with the BT adapter, you need to explain what you have in mind, do you mean the built-in BT adapter or a 3rd party?
And for what purpose?

 

[atreyu187]

The only homebrew I know that uses a BT adapter is PS3Xpad which allows one to use just about any controller with the PS3. I have used Xbox 360/XB1 pads on my PS3. Also works great to use a dualshock 4 on the PS3 just the same as the DS3. Can even use WiiMotes and more. If I recall this works fine with HEN. I hope one day it will get updated or a new variant that supports newer stuff like the PS5 controller. I can get it running on PS2 & Vita with help from the community. Till then I got a Cronus as I think the DualSense is the best controller ever made.

 

[bguerville]

If the idea is to use a 3rd party USB 2.0 BT dongle rather than the built-in BT hardware then the situation is no different from any other USB device not natively supported, as long as you have an appropriate userland driver library (that compiles with either SDK) to use with it, you can leverage it within an homebrew app and use the dongle for whatever purpose on HEN or CFW.

Any userland driver written for BSD or even Linux/Android might be portable as long as requirements are within specs.
The problem with this is ubiquity, each type of dongle requiring its own driver, it's a pain in the ass to release anything based on such a setup because users have to hunt for the exact type of dongles before they can use the app.
I am not aware of any "Universal" BT driver library supporting a wide range of dongles ever being either ported to or released for PS3, the only BT dongle driver library that's been used for homebrew would be the one included in the ps3xpad project to my knowledge.

 

[Mr.FiniteFields]

That's too vague a question to answer.
What do you mean exactly by interfacing with the BT adapter, you need to explain what you have in mind, do you mean the built-in BT adapter or a 3rd party?
And for what purpose?

If the idea is to use a 3rd party USB 2.0 BT dongle rather than the built-in BT hardware then the situation is no different from any other USB device not natively supported, as long as you have an appropriate userland driver library (that compiles with either SDK) to use with it, you can leverage it within an homebrew app and use the dongle for whatever purpose on HEN or CFW.

Any userland driver written for BSD or even Linux/Android might be portable as long as requirements are within specs.
The problem with this is ubiquity, each type of dongle requiring its own driver, it's a pain in the ass to release anything based on such a setup because users have to hunt for the exact type of dongles before they can use the app.
I am not aware of any "Universal" BT driver library supporting a wide range of dongles ever being either ported to or released for PS3, the only BT dongle driver library that's been used for homebrew would be the one included in the ps3xpad project to my knowledge.

Yeah, I was referring to the internal one that is normally used for controllers. I was wondering if it could be used as an alternative connection for supporting functionality such as file transfers.