Bluetooth and seriel emulation

[Markus Humm]

Hello,

some bluetooth devices expose a virtual serial interface, am I right?
If yes, can a given application which currently uses RS232
communications just use this one (and with it bluetooth) like it is a
RS232 device?

Greetings

Markus

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

In theory yes, however if you want to setup that COM port mapping
programmatically you'll need to go through some API calls either through the
MS SDK (For which I wrote this .NET wrapper - www.32feet.net) or a
third-party SDK for a specific Bluetooth stack.
Of course one option would be leave the initial bonding and setup of the
virtual COM port to the user, then from your programs perspective it's just
like connecting to any other COM port.

Peter