Re: Recieving GPS Strings with Bluetooth

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From: ChrisTH (x_at_y.z)
Date: 03/02/05 

Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:23:07 +1100

Thaynann wrote:
> I have managed to be able to read in the string from the GPS reciever,
> however it appears as a string of question marks (?), and is always a
> differentl length...
>
>
> can anyoen help with this???

Disclaimer: I've never programmed a Bluetooth stack, but...

I've fiddled a lot with various items to get them talking. Bluetooth
doodads seem to appear to the host devices as serial ports in the main,
and what you're describing looks like possibly a baud rate mismatch?

FWIW

Chris.

> "Thaynann" wrote:
>
>
>>I am trying to recieve a GPS string, on a PPC, using a bluetooth adaptor
>>
>>the adaptor is attached to the GPS reciever, and is sending out a string
>>every second, my application, for some reason, will not recieve it, in fact
>>when conencted to the bluetooth adaptor on the GPS, it does not recieve any
>>infromation at all, but when i connect my app to a bluetooth adaptor that is
>>connected to a PC, it will send and recieve data...has anyone else had this
>>issue.
>>
>>Can Anyone help.

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