I’ve made some progress.
I downloaded an application, it is called “Docklight V1.7”.
It connected to COM9, and it is receiving the data.
The red light on the FireFly lit up, and in the monitor the output looks like this:-
Echo
Echo
Echo
Echo
So, a couple of things.
When Docklight established the connection, and windows item popped up, and said “A bluetooth device is asking permission to be connected”, or something like that. It then prompted for the PassKey, I typed it in, and the connection was established.
The Arduino IDE can’t see COM9 (assigned as outgoing FireFly-6758 SPP), only COM8 (incoming FireFly-6758), since Docklight can, I’m guessing there’s a problem with Arduino, and proce55ing, HyperTerminal, and realBasic.
Because the earlier versions of BlueSmirf are known to work with Arduino, wiring, proce55ing, HyperTerminal, and realBasic, then it’s more than likely the problem is that the new version of BlueSmirf (FireFly) isn’t compatible with Arduino, Proce55ing, Hyperterminal, wiring and realBasic.
And that’s a BIG! problem.
I need a device thats backwards compatible, and this one obviously is not. I’ve spent 3 days trying to get this to work, a BT device should only at the very most, take 5 minutes to setup.
If anyone else is having the same “joys” with this incarnation of blueSmirf, please contact me.