[Feature] Bluetooth Support

[6ixfalls]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Coming from KDE Connect which has a Bluetooth feature, this would be a great addition and would mean the devices do not need to be on the same network. Although some features may not work with this setup such as ADB (although there may be some other options to replace that, as Link to Windows is able to screen mirror without direct ADB access), it would still be great to have access to a subset of the features especially for people who are out and about and do not always have their devices on the same network. It would also remove the need to repair devices on every single network as well.

Describe the solution you'd like
Bluetooth support for connection between devices.

Describe alternatives you've considered
KDE Connect has a relatively nice bluetooth feature although it doesn't connect automatically after sleep quite often.

[sameerasw]

Hi!, I actually got some plans to implement bluetooth support soon. Only thing is that macs do not support other than Bluetooth LE anymore (from my research) so device support might be limited. But as the first step, I was thinking to add support for at least triggering the authentication so we can connect to the Android without needing to interact from it.

And then, I was planning to extend it to notifications. I don't think we will have full functionality but I will see how it's possible with limited packet size.

Hard to tell of an exact time but I will try my best to focus on this after the release this week. :)

[6ixfalls]

It appears the screen mirroring I mentioned with Link to Windows is exclusive to Galaxy devices, so it doesn't seem like that will be possible by default without some privilege stuff going on (maybe requiring sideloading, etc).

[sameerasw]

It appears the screen mirroring I mentioned with Link to Windows is exclusive to Galaxy devices, so it doesn't seem like that will be possible by default without some privilege stuff going on (maybe requiring sideloading, etc).

Yeap, they seems to be using some propiratary stuff as I wasn't even able get them with root in the past prolly using WiFi direct which is also very restrictive on Mac and also on some Android devices.

Let's see... If the messages can fit, the Bluetooth might work nicely but I gotta test out to see how reliable it is :)

[sameerasw]

I think after a few attempts with BT LE, it might not really be useful as it's very liming and also was quite inefficient to stream device status every 5 seconds or so. And also device discovery got implemented in to the current app which makes Bluetooth discovery a bit obsolete as well but I will keep this task open in case I implement bluetooth notification sync only.