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davis
Hi, the landscape for developing BT applications on .net cf / pocketpc
seems a bit convoluted given all the different stack implementations,
application libraries (that seem to have specific dependencies on stack
implementations), and microsoft's poor API support / documentation for
development of BT apps using .net cf.
I am new to this, and what I want to do seems relatively simple, but I
wonder if someone might be able to point me in the right direction.
End Goal:
There is a proprietary piece of hardware which will interface with a
pocket pc device over bluetooth. I don't know what the bt stack, etc.
is on that proprietary hardware -- someone else is developing this. I
am developing the pocketpc side. On the pocket pc side, I have windows
mobile 5.0, which appears to have the Broadcom/Widcomm stack.
The messages that are exchanged are a proprietary network protocol. I
built an application that ping/pongs these messages over Wi-Fi using
UDP. Once I get the UDP packet, I strip out the payload, interpret the
proprietary header/data, etc. I want to do the same over Bluetooth,
but I'm not even sure where to start.
I tried looking at Peter Foot's 32feet bluetooth API, but it is not
compatible with my device.
I need to develop a client/server approach with the pocketpc talking to
my laptop and my laptop simulating the hardware device that will
eventually act as the server. So, I need to develop both sides of this
application. My laptop also has integrated Bluetooth with the
Broadcom/Widcomm stack.
Q: Do I need to buy some 3rd party libraries to accomplish this?
http://franson.com/bluetools/index.asp?ref=google
http://www.high-point.com/
Q: If the answer to that is no, can I just develop some way to set up
the serial profile over the COM port? I see this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/usewinemb/ce/sharedsrccode/west/de...
I downloaded that code/library -- documentation is nil. I am unsure
exactly how to use it or if it will indeed work both on pocket pc and
on windows xp.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Davis
seems a bit convoluted given all the different stack implementations,
application libraries (that seem to have specific dependencies on stack
implementations), and microsoft's poor API support / documentation for
development of BT apps using .net cf.
I am new to this, and what I want to do seems relatively simple, but I
wonder if someone might be able to point me in the right direction.
End Goal:
There is a proprietary piece of hardware which will interface with a
pocket pc device over bluetooth. I don't know what the bt stack, etc.
is on that proprietary hardware -- someone else is developing this. I
am developing the pocketpc side. On the pocket pc side, I have windows
mobile 5.0, which appears to have the Broadcom/Widcomm stack.
The messages that are exchanged are a proprietary network protocol. I
built an application that ping/pongs these messages over Wi-Fi using
UDP. Once I get the UDP packet, I strip out the payload, interpret the
proprietary header/data, etc. I want to do the same over Bluetooth,
but I'm not even sure where to start.
I tried looking at Peter Foot's 32feet bluetooth API, but it is not
compatible with my device.
I need to develop a client/server approach with the pocketpc talking to
my laptop and my laptop simulating the hardware device that will
eventually act as the server. So, I need to develop both sides of this
application. My laptop also has integrated Bluetooth with the
Broadcom/Widcomm stack.
Q: Do I need to buy some 3rd party libraries to accomplish this?
http://franson.com/bluetools/index.asp?ref=google
http://www.high-point.com/
Q: If the answer to that is no, can I just develop some way to set up
the serial profile over the COM port? I see this page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/usewinemb/ce/sharedsrccode/west/de...
I downloaded that code/library -- documentation is nil. I am unsure
exactly how to use it or if it will indeed work both on pocket pc and
on windows xp.
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Davis