BTHUB(4)

💖 Bluetooth Remote Device Hub 💖

okay so this is bthub(4) from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and it’s giving Bluetooth Remote Device Hub energy — the page that helps remote Bluetooth devices attach to your system. bestie, let’s get into it 💅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

bthub — Bluetooth Remote Device Hub.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bthub* at bcsp?
bthub* at bt3c?
bthub* at btbc?
bthub* at btuart?
bthub* at sbt?
bthub* at ubt?

bthidev* at bthub?
btmagic* at bthub?
btsco* at bthub?

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The bthub device is used to attach remote Bluetooth devices to the system, and will attach to Bluetooth controllers as they are enabled. literally its whole job 🫶

🦋 CONFIGURATION 🦋

Normally, Bluetooth Remote Devices will be configured on the bthub using the btdevctl(8) program, which passes a proplib(3) dictionary to the control file /dev/bthub with the BTDEV_ATTACH and BTDEV_DETACH ioctl(2) commands.

The following properties are used by bthub:

• local-bdaddr — Local BD_ADDR. This required property should be a six byte data blob.
• remote-bdaddr — Remote BD_ADDR. This required property should be a six byte data blob.
• service-name — Service name. This required property should be a string indicating the service to configure, and may be one of the following:
  • HF — Handsfree, see btsco(4).
  • HID — Human Interface Device, see bthidev(4).
  • HSET — Headset, see btsco(4).

Properties used by the configured device are listed in the appropriate device manual page. iykyk, check that device’s own page 💜

🎀 FILES 🎀

• /dev/bthub

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• bluetooth(4)
• bthidev(4)
• btmagic(4)
• btsco(4)
• btdevctl(8)

👑 HISTORY 👑

The bthub driver was written by Iain Hibbert under the sponsorship of Itronix, Inc. and first appeared in NetBSD 4.0. iconic origin story ✨

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okay that’s the whole page, bestie 🫶 this beauty is from the Debian manual set, dated October 17, 2010, and the manual page name is BTHUB(4) — byeeee 💋💖