How to use bluetooth?

[gott_e]

Hi pals,

I was wondering if anyone tried to use bluetooth under PPC 2002?
Which libraries have I to use?

Regards..

Marco.

[cryo]

Hi,

i have to use BT in a running project too. I don't know if this is of any use, since it seems to be for CE .NET only, but i have not had the time to take a closer look:



cryo

[Jim]

[sponge]

If you know the Bluetooth dialog is going to pop up, can't you momentarily minimize your program properly, so that it doesn't end up messing up your graphics/sound?

I do see the problem, I just don't see how the solution is so tough.

BTW, will you still get serial speed if you redirect BT to the COM port? (as an incentive to buy the $1000 SDK of sorts)

[cryo]

Does anyone know if the BT implementation in the iPAQ 3970 also is from widcomm?

cryo

[gott_e]

Jim: if you like and send me a small test program I can test it on the 39XX IPaq.

Its a pitty that it seems like that there is no better solution..

Regards..

Marco.

[Jim]

[Jim]

[gott_e]

Is this legal? Are you allowed to use this in a commercial product?

Regards...

Marco.

[sponge]

[Jim]

[Sergey Chaban]

Recently I've spent some time trying to figure out how to access Bluetooth stack directly on iPaq 3x70.
If this will be of some help I put some source code for download on this page:



Not very useful at the moment but I'm going to spend some time developing this stuff. (In fact what I want is a wrapper to access BT from the .NET Compact Framework).
There are basicaly three ways to work with BT on iPaqs (some of them were already mentioned).
Hard way: Use file handles for "BTS1:" & "BTP1:" devices and I/O CTRL to talk to device directly;
Easy way: Use Widcomm API which resides in the wbtapiCE.dll;
High-level way: Use Compaq's API from BTCore.dll;

API is pretty much straight-forward but there are lots of quirks, e.g. initializing stack requires some ugly cruft.

Have fun,
S.C.

[cryo]

widcomm is not the only one, there is also BTAccess from high point . I don't know which one is better in terms of functionality, I have yet to receive my widcomm lib. Anyway, the BTAccess one is cheaper.

cryo

[Sergey Chaban]