Bluesmirf broken?

Wireless & IoT
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Hi, everyone.

I’ve got one of the newer (blue antennae) BlueSmirf breakouts attached to my robot and I’ve been connecting to it through a class 1 USB bluetooth dongle on my PC. At first it was connecting on the first try. After maybe 30 connections it was connecting every second attempt. Then for a few tries the green light would turn on ever-so-briefly and it would go back to blinking red. Now it won’t connect at all.

My wiring is pretty bad. Still, I’m confident that I’m not shorting out the board. On my PC I can still see that a serial service is offered on the right COM port.

What is wrong? :frowning:

Thanks!

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Apparently it’s just my crummy wiring. I have to keep unhooking the modem when I want to use the USB serial connection to update the firmware, and so my connections are really terrible.

False alarm!