Hello,
I’m a java developer by day but really new to Arduino and I’m learning about electrical engineering as I’m going along so thanks for your patience. I just got my Bluetooth Mate Gold(BMG) and I’ve got a Arduino ATMega 2560 and I’m trying to make them play together.
Are they definitely compatible? All of the content says the BMG ‘is designed specifically to be used with our Arduino Pros and LilyPad Arduinos’. It doesn’t say ‘exclusively for…’ but I’m not seeing anything online that shows me how to hook it up to the ATMega pin for pin. The closest thing I found was this: [Connecting Bluetooth Mate Gold with Arduino Duemilanove.
So I tried my best to hook the two together last night using the directions from said thread above and it was a no go. They wanted me to hook ‘Gnd to Gnd, CTS to RTS, RX (Bluetooth) to TX (Arduino), TX(Bluetooth) to RX (Arduino)’. CTS to RTS confused me because I only saw these labels on the BMG. Am I really supposed to connect these? All of the other connections were going from the BMG to the Arduino but this was BMG to itself. Doesn’t sound right so I’m asking.
Also, when I pushed the code from the thread above to the ATMega, I essentially locked up and I read (somewhere) that it was because I was sending code to the ATMega from my computer while I had the BMG connected to the Arduino’s TX(0) and RX(1) ports. But that’s what I was told to do; to make those connections. My com port console (COM3) doesn’t come up because it says it was already in use and I had to reboot my machine to release it!
If someone has answers to these questions, I’m all ears. Or if you know where I can find info on hooking up the BMG to an ATMega, that would be great. Also, I’m not good at reading Datasheets. I’m batting a thousand huh?! =) Having fun though!.
Thanks for your help,