Hi guys, im hoping someone can help me out here.
i have just received my 3rd bluesmirf, i had to keep sending it back because i couldnt connect to it, and even this one - 3rd one - doesnt work.
i use windows bluetooth manager to “add” my bluesmirf and type in the passkey. once it is added, windows assigns the bluesmirf a incomming and outgoing com ports.
then heres the problem. a minute or so after i have added them, when i try to connect, the outgoing com port has disappeared (it no longer appears in the services in the bluetooth manager).
the way i try to connect to the devices is using a custom java program i wrote in ‘processing’ (see www.processing.org). it works because i tried it with my other bluesmirfs, but this one, it will not work because its outgoing com port dissapeared.
firstly i thought it was me, but i have 2 other bluesmirf devices which work fine, it is just this one that doesnt work. and its been replaced 3 times. did they change the production line of bluesmirfs recently or something.
in terms of appearance, the bluesmirf that doesn work has a piece of blue plastic backing up the top, whereas the old bluesmirfs i had were green plastic up the top.
can anyone recommend a program that ‘assigns’ com ports to such bluetooth devices but does not connect them. because i need the computer to have preassigned outgoing ports, and then i use my java program to ‘connect’ to the bluesmirfs (which are connected to a microcontroller)
this is kinda a major hasle because i live in australia and it takes alot of time to send them back and forth.