Re: How do bluetooth devices map to COM ports?



Check that with devcon.exe ( DDK console app )
with command : "devcon listclass bluetooth" or "devcon listclass ports"
Arkady

"Elliot Leonard" <ElliotLeonard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Anil Dhawan, a Program Manager in the Windows Mobile group, gave an
> interview
> at msdn channel 9(http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=42234)
> that
> discusses how to access bluetooth devices as simple COM ports so that you
> can
> communicate with simple ReadFile/WriteFile calls.
>
> This was encouraging to me because I am just starting to investigate how
> to
> use bluetooth as a cable replacement for some sensors that my company
> sells.
> Unfortunately, his example was kind of bogus in one respect: he just hard
> coded his app to use COM6.
>
> I need to be able to talk to up to 3 separate bluetooth enabled sensors
> simultaneously. How do I go about mapping each sensor to a separate COM
> port?
> And how do I detect when sensors come and go?
>


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