Bluesmirf Silver as a HID receiver

Hi, im new in this forum, i hope im writing the right thing in the right place…

Actually im not english, but i’ll write this topic as best as possible

Anywhere, im working on an arduino project where i need to use the Dualshock 4 to control an rc car that i built.

I watched some tutorials about connecting a dualshock 4 to an arduino board and in any tutorial they said that you have to use a usb host shield with a bluethoot usb adapter…now, im asking you if, instead of using this method with the usb host shield, i could use the Bluesmirf Silver to pair with the dualshock 4 and receive the hid report(which i will use to elaborate the report and control the rc car with the buttons and axis on the controller).

Another question: does the bluesmirf silver have an HID profile that i can select instead of SSP with the command? or is this function possible only with the Bluesmirf hid that has been retired? and could you recommend me an appropriate bluethoot hid module for my project if i can’t actually use the bluesmirf?

Hello Jarvis42.

The Bluesmirf silver does now support support HID and that’s why we discontinued the special HID version we used to carry. See chapter 5 of the [command reference manual for instructions on how to switch between SPP and HID modes.

From looking at the manual, I think it can only be a HID device (keyboard/mouse/joystick) and not a USB host. (computer) It sounds like you’re looking for something that could be a USB host and unfortunately the Bluesmirf probably won’t work for that. You might be able to use something like a Raspberry Pi to be a host and write a program for it that passes your commands onto your RC car though.](http://cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Wireless/Bluetooth/bluetooth_cr_UG-v1.0r.pdf)