Program your symbian phone from your computer using Python!

Since python is gaining more and more interest among symbian developers and more and more applications are written in Python. So its almost a necessity to have python in your mobile. As i mentioned  in my previous post PyS60 support programming your symbian s60 phones.

But i know its hard to write programs from your phones. PyS60 have an option called Bluetooth console which is an interactive python interpreter running on your phone that communicates with your computer over a bluetooth connection.

Here i will describe, How to setup PyS60 bluetooth console and Linux!

You  will need at least the following tools:

• hcitool to scan your mobile device


• sdptool and sdpd daemon to register services like serial port


• rfcomm to emulate serial port over bluetooth


• minicom a serial communication program

Then follow these instructions

I hope you have blutooth adapter connected to your computer else plug-in your bluetooth adapter

Then from the terminal type:

$hciconfig reset

Then check that the device is there

$hcitool dev

Then next step is to register a serial port(use channel 1, that may vary)

$sdptool add --channel=1 SP

Now start listing to the the channel

$rfcomm listen rfcomm1 1

Ok, now pickup your phone and make sure that bluetooth is on then go to your python application and  select the bluetooth console. Select your host from the list.

Now it will establish a connection between your phone and computer.

Next you open a new terminal and write the following command

$minicom -o -D /dev/rfcomm1

Now you are in your phones python console.... Enjoy !

Tested with : NOKIA 5233 and Ubuntu 10.04