Bluez programming on C on dbus

Question

I am writing one simple agent app.

I am able to pair my device, but when I tried to connect (click on connect option) it's failing with following dbus log

Your help will be highly appreciated.

method call time=1537417845.746765 sender=:1.0 -> destination=:1.25 serial=2824 path=/org/bluez/AutoPinAgent; interface=org.bluez.Agent1; member=AuthorizeService
   object path "/org/bluez/hci0/dev_00_00_00_17_55_B8"
   string "00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb"
error time=1537417845.749340 sender=:1.25 -> destination=:1.0 error_name=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod reply_serial=2824
   string "No such interface 'org.bluez.Agent1' on object at path /org/bluez/AutoPinAgent"

Answer 1

It's really hard to judge without the source code of your agent and how you trying to connect. From the logs, it is clear that when the daemon tries to connect HS(headset) role of HSP profile, it is requesting authorization by calling AuthorizeService of your agent.

From error reply, I could understand that you don't have the method/interface properly registered with Bluez. So you need to implement AuthorizeService and authorize the service when connection is tried for this profile.

Below is the sample example of an Agent which implements doc/agent-api.txt of Bluez. So you need to implement AuthorizeService in this example based on your needs. This example is just the template code without any specific implementation.

/*
 * gcc `pkg-config --cflags glib-2.0 gio-2.0` -Wall -Wextra -o ./bin/agent ./agent.c `pkg-config --libs glib-2.0 gio-2.0`
 */
#include <glib.h>
#include <gio/gio.h>
#include <stdio.h>

GMainLoop *loop;
GDBusConnection *con;
#define AGENT_PATH  "/org/bluez/AutoPinAgent"

static void bluez_agent_method_call(GDBusConnection *conn,
                    const gchar *sender,
                    const gchar *path,
                    const gchar *interface,
                    const gchar *method,
                    GVariant *params,
                    GDBusMethodInvocation *invocation,
                    void *userdata)
{
    int pass;
    int entered;
    char *opath;
    GVariant *p= g_dbus_method_invocation_get_parameters(invocation);

    g_print("Agent method call: %s.%s()\n", interface, method);
    if(!strcmp(method, "RequestPinCode")) {
        ;
    }
    else if(!strcmp(method, "DisplayPinCode")) {
        ;
    }
    else if(!strcmp(method, "RequestPasskey")) {
        g_print("Getting the Pin from user: ");
        fscanf(stdin, "%d", &pass);
        g_print("\n");
        g_dbus_method_invocation_return_value(invocation, g_variant_new("(u)", pass));
    }
    else if(!strcmp(method, "DisplayPasskey")) {
        g_variant_get(params, "(ouq)", &opath, &pass, &entered);
        g_dbus_method_invocation_return_value(invocation, NULL);
    }
    else if(!strcmp(method, "RequestConfirmation")) {
        g_variant_get(params, "(ou)", &opath, &pass);
        g_dbus_method_invocation_return_value(invocation, NULL);
    }
    else if(!strcmp(method, "RequestAuthorization")) {
        ;
    }
    else if(!strcmp(method, "AuthorizeService")) {
        ;
    }
    else if(!strcmp(method, "Cancel")) {
        ;
    }
    else
        g_print("We should not come here, unknown method\n");
}

static const GDBusInterfaceVTable agent_method_table = {
    .method_call = bluez_agent_method_call,
};

int bluez_register_agent(GDBusConnection *con)
{
    GError *error = NULL;
    guint id = 0;
    GDBusNodeInfo *info = NULL;

    static const gchar bluez_agent_introspection_xml[] =
        "<node name='/org/bluez/SampleAgent'>"
        "   <interface name='org.bluez.Agent1'>"
        "       <method name='Release'>"
        "       </method>"
        "       <method name='RequestPinCode'>"
        "           <arg type='o' name='device' direction='in' />"
        "           <arg type='s' name='pincode' direction='out' />"
        "       </method>"
        "       <method name='DisplayPinCode'>"
        "           <arg type='o' name='device' direction='in' />"
        "           <arg type='s' name='pincode' direction='in' />"
        "       </method>"
        "       <method name='RequestPasskey'>"
        "           <arg type='o' name='device' direction='in' />"
        "           <arg type='u' name='passkey' direction='out' />"
        "       </method>"
        "       <method name='DisplayPasskey'>"
        "           <arg type='o' name='device' direction='in' />"
        "           <arg type='u' name='passkey' direction='in' />"
        "           <arg type='q' name='entered' direction='in' />"
        "       </method>"
        "       <method name='RequestConfirmation'>"
        "           <arg type='o' name='device' direction='in' />"
        "           <arg type='u' name='passkey' direction='in' />"
        "       </method>"
        "       <method name='RequestAuthorization'>"
        "           <arg type='o' name='device' direction='in' />"
        "       </method>"
        "       <method name='AuthorizeService'>"
        "           <arg type='o' name='device' direction='in' />"
        "           <arg type='s' name='uuid' direction='in' />"
        "       </method>"
        "       <method name='Cancel'>"
        "       </method>"
        "   </interface>"
        "</node>";

    info = g_dbus_node_info_new_for_xml(bluez_agent_introspection_xml, &error);
    if(error) {
        g_printerr("Unable to create node: %s\n", error->message);
        g_clear_error(&error);
        return 0;
    }

    id = g_dbus_connection_register_object(con, 
            AGENT_PATH,
            info->interfaces[0],
            &agent_method_table,
            NULL, NULL, &error);
    g_dbus_node_info_unref(info);
    //g_dbus_connection_unregister_object(con, id);
    /* call register method in AgentManager1 interface */
    return id;
}

static int bluez_agent_call_method(const gchar *method, GVariant *param)
{
    GVariant *result;
    GError *error = NULL;

    result = g_dbus_connection_call_sync(con,
            "org.bluez",
            "/org/bluez",
            "org.bluez.AgentManager1",
            method,
            param,
            NULL,
            G_DBUS_CALL_FLAGS_NONE,
            -1,
            NULL,
            &error);
    if(error != NULL) {
        g_print("Register %s: %s\n", AGENT_PATH, error->message);
        return 1;
    }

    g_variant_unref(result);
    return 0;
}

static int bluez_register_autopair_agent(const char *cap)
{
    int rc;

    rc = bluez_agent_call_method("RegisterAgent", g_variant_new("(os)", AGENT_PATH, cap));
    if(rc)
        return 1;

    rc = bluez_agent_call_method("RequestDefaultAgent", g_variant_new("(o)", AGENT_PATH));
    if(rc) {
        bluez_agent_call_method("UnregisterAgent", g_variant_new("(o)", AGENT_PATH));
        return 1;
    }

    return 0;
}


static void cleanup_handler(int signo)
{
    if (signo == SIGINT) {
        g_print("received SIGINT\n");
        g_main_loop_quit(loop);
    }
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int id;
    int rc;

    if(argc < 2)
        return 1;

    if(signal(SIGINT, cleanup_handler) == SIG_ERR)
        g_print("can't catch SIGINT\n");

    con = g_bus_get_sync(G_BUS_TYPE_SYSTEM, NULL, NULL);
    if(con == NULL) {
        g_print("Not able to get connection to system bus\n");
        return 1;
    }

    loop = g_main_loop_new(NULL, FALSE);

    id = bluez_register_agent(con);
    if(id == 0)
        goto fail;

    rc = bluez_register_autopair_agent(argv[1]);
    if(rc) {
        g_print("Not able to register default autopair agent\n");
        goto fail;
    }

    g_main_loop_run(loop);

fail:
    g_dbus_connection_unregister_object(con, id);
    g_object_unref(con);
    return 0;
}

Always it is best to start with bluetoothctl CLI based pairing and connection before writing our own source.