[Pyobjc-dev] Bluetooth in non-blocking application with Qt user interface

[Lukas H. <Lu...@gm...>]

Hello,

I need your help porting my application Series60-Remote [1] to Mac OS X.
It is an open source software suite for S60 mobile phones, which is written in 
Python. Its GUI is based on PyQt4 [2] and it uses Bluetooth to connect to a 
mobile phone.

I tried to port this application to Mac OS X using lightblue as bluetooth 
wrapper for IOBluetooth. I tried to handle the bluetooth connection in a 
seperate thread (like in Linux and Windows) [3], but this seems to be not 
possible with IOBluetooth.

My next try was to use an asynchronous connection instead and use IOBluetooth 
directly. It works great with the attached Objective-C application [4]. 
But how can I use this wrapper in my Python application?
When I import this extension using objc I already have the Qt event loop 
running. But I also have to start the Cocoa event loop (CFRunLoopRun()) if I 
want to receive rfcommChannelData and rfcommChannelOpenComplete events?
Is it possible to integrate this event loop in Qt, like it is possible to 
integrate the Qt event loop in GTK+?

Did anybody try something like this? Are there any examples?

[I know this issue isn't directly related to PyObjc, but maybe anybody has 
done a similar thing?]

Thank you for every help,
Lukas Hetzenecker