For quite a while now, I've been successfully using Parani SD1000 Bluetooth Serial adapters coupled with HTC PDAs running PConnect to collect data from our CR10Xs and CR1000s out in the field. I now have some Panasonic Toughbooks that I intend to swap for the PDAs to give our guys more functionality than a PDA can offer.
The Toughbooks are running XP and have Bluetooth built in. I can get Bluetooth Devices to detect, pair and discover services on the SD1000 (i.e. install a serial port) and the ports (One Outgoing, one Incoming) show up in Device Manager. However, when I try to add a station in Loggernet the COM ports aren't detected.
I can see the two native COM ports and also installed an SC-USB afterwards and that shows up; just no Bluetooth COM ports. In Device Manager they show up as 'Standard Serial over Bluetooth link (COM12)'.
Any ideas why Loggernet doesn't detect them? I thought they were just emulated as physical COM ports?
The bluetoth adapter does not entirely emulate serial ports. When LoggerNet obtains a potential collection of serial port names from the windows registry, it will verify each name in that potential list through a call to the win32 API. Unfortunately, the bluetooth virtual serial port acts as if it does not exist when this call is made. As a result, the port will not show up in the enumeration. This will be addressed in LoggerNet version 4.2. In the meantime, you can work around the problem by directly typing the name of the port.
Thanks for that, got it working.