bluetooth

Smartphone for use with the NXT

Greetings. I will be getting a new smartphone for work. It needs to work with Telus, so the iPhone, and Android-based phones are out. The available phones appear to be include a number of BlackBerries, HTC phones, Motorola phones, as well as LG, Samsung, and ZTE phones. I have a LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot, and would like a phone for w...

Is there a hook to monitor activity on a bluetooth serial port

Is there any way of monitoring activity over a bluetooth connection either using a software hook or an external bluetooth monitor, where the bluetooth is emulating a RS232 serial port. When I'm using a cabled connection, I could use an in-line datascope for this activity, which was basically checking whether comms between a PC and exter...

Accessing Bluetooth virtual COM port on Windows without manual pairing

I need to connect to a Bluetooth device through virtual COM port created in Windows. It's easy when the port has been already created during manual pairing procedure. But I would like my application to relieve an user from the manual pairing of a device. I would like to present all devices in the range, allow user to chose one, and then ...

Getting response from bluetooth device

I'm trying to write a simple module that will enable sending SMS. I using bluetooth to connect to the mobile using the below example: file: bt-sendsms.py import bluetooth target = '00:32:AC:32:36:E8' # Mobile address print "Trying to send SMS on %s" % target BTSocket = bluetooth.BluetoothSocket(bluetooth.RFCOMM) BTSocket.connect(...

iphone a2dp codecs supported

I am looking around to see what audio codecs are supported by the a2dp profile on the iphone (3.0 i guess). aac, apt-x, mp3, etc... anyone know? ...

Bluetooth hotspots

Where should you start when your next application was a bluetooth hotspot implementation? Any help (link, e-book, guide) would be gratefully appreciated ...

bluetooth file transfer in J2me

hi, I am new to the J2ME technology. And I am making an application which will transfer the text and image(downloaded through http and stored into an ImageItem of a form) from a client mobile to the server mobile using bluetooth. The connection used is SPP. I have succeded to transfer the text message. But I am unable to transfer the ima...

Measuring bluetooth signal strength via AppleScript on Mac OS X

So I just read this article. What I'm wondering is, is there any way to determine bluetooth signal strength quantitatively, whether using AppleScript or some other language on Mac OS X? I'd like to implement something like this, except the 30-foot range mentioned in the article is a bit high, IMHO. I'd like it to work when I'm more than,...

iPhone SDK 3.0: where is the Bluetooth?!

i'm participating in the iPhone Developer Program and i have access to the iPhone 3.0 firmware and SDK. one of the new features of the iPhone 3.0 -- is ability to use Bluetooth, but i can't find any documentation about it. can someone point me please -- where is it? ...

where can I find iphone sdk 3.0 GameKit tutorials for developing P2P applications?

Hello, I'm starting to develop a p2p applcation for the iphone sdk 3.0. But I'm finding it hard to find good code examples for the bluetooth api. Anyone knows where I can find this info for newbies? thanks!!! ...

How to test iphone p2p aplications?

Is there a way to test iphone OS 3.0 p2p applications? Can I run multiple iphone simulator instances? Aperantly no. Any help? ...

Is iPhone bluetooth function limited in OS 3.0?

A simple question. Is it possible to use bluetooth in iPhone to transfer file to other mobile phone such as Nokia or Blackberry. I tested iPhone bluetooth function today. I found it's possible to detect other phone in discovery mode. But the iPhone is not detected in other devices. ...

Can the iPhone 3.0 SDK provide full access to bluetooth devices (headsets)

So an iPhone can pair with a bluetooth headset and use it to make calls (although an iPod touch with the 3.0 OS can not pair with a headset, go figure). But can I write an app that can access paired blue-tooth devices and their functionality (like the mic input from a headset). This would be useful in VOIP apps or even multi-player ga...

Is it possible to scan for bluetooth "id's" using the iphone gamekit api's

Hi Ok, before I get a ton of responses. I know you cannot talk to other bluetooth devices (exchanging data or otherwise). I was just wondering if the bluetooth id's appear when you use the Peer Picker as I'm currently investigating just the ability to detect other bluetooth devices not the actual pairing. Think of it like bluetooth RFI...

How to tell the host from the client in iPhone bluetooth with GameKit

I have made a multiplayer game using the GameKit Framework where 2 iPhones/iPods can connect to each other via bluetooth and play. I am thinking of a way to choose which device will be able to play first. So the logical solution is to pick the host of the connection. Is there even a server and a client in the GKSession? Are they all pee...

Bluetooth Protocol?

Ok, this might just be a dumb question, but I was wondering if Bluetooth follows TCP or UDP protocol? From my knowledge of network protocols (which isn't much), I would say that it doesn't follow either of those two and that there is some kind of specific bluetooth protocol that exist. I have one more question...what protocol does the bl...

GameKit in iPhone SDK 3.0

So, I was wondering if you NEED to use the Peer Picker to find peers in the new iPhone SDK 3.0. I don't really want to use it but I do want to use the peer-to-peer bluetooth connection. Is there any sample code that demonstrates the bluetooth connection without using Peer Picker? The game GKTank that Apple provides utilizes the Peer Pick...

error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'GKPeerPickerController

I keep getting this message (in the title). Just take a quick look at my code if you want to see what I'm doing. I've just started implementing the Peer Picker, so I'm not completely done yet. I just need some advice/help in the first part. The error shows up in the .m file between the two #import statements, which means it has to be som...

Bluetooth in C#, Which stack, Which SDK?

We've got an application which needs to be able to use bluetooth for the following requirements: Receive files from bluetooth devices (up to 2 devices at the same time) Display all bluetooth devices in range Send files to bluetooth devices Scan for bluetooth devices and transfer files at the same time We're running on Windows XP. I'...

iPhone Gamekit peer with a desktop peer

I am looking for a way to establish a wireless connection between an iPhone and a desktop client. Gamekit looks promising but all the examples / documentation only explain iPhone to iPhone. Are there examples / documentation for an Gamekit peer on the desktop (cocoa or java)? What are the alternatives without doing to much low level so...