General
The Bluetooth Software Suite provides information on the properties of the Bluetooth Neighborhood. This information is accessed from the Bluetooth Neighborhood Properties dialog box. To open this: On the Bluetooth menu, click Bluetooth Neighborhood Properties.
The Bluetooth Neighborhood Properties – General dialog box opens:
At the top of the dialox box you can see the name of your local device, in this case “John’s desktop”. (For information on how to name your local device, see “Naming your local device”.)
Furthermore, the dialog box contains the items General Information and Connections:
- General Information shows the identity information that, in addition to the name of your device, will be sent to remote devices carrying out device or service discovery on your device. The device address and service class are determined by the Bluetooth hardware, the device class you can set yourself (see “Settings”).
- Connections shows which remote devices your device is currently connected to, if any. Also, you can see which role your local device plays in the piconet: master or slave.
As appears, from this dialog box you can access a number of other dialog boxes: Settings, Device Discovery, Trust, Security, and Bonding. We will deal with each of these in the following.