Help with Roving Networks Bluetooth

Wireless & IoT
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Hi –

I have 2 questions for this bluetooth device (or any similar device for that matter). hopefully the answers will be useful to others as well

#1 will this module work for the iphone (i.e. can you stream serial data like I can to my computer over bluetooth)?

#2:

I’m have set up a python script to connect with OSX and it works about 1/2 the time. The other half of the time I get an error :

SerialException: could not open port /dev/tty.FireFly-920F-SPP: [Errno 16] Resource busy: ‘/dev/tty.FireFly-920F-SPP’

If I keep trying to connect it eventually goes through (after 2 tries). I don’t have any other programs running and have basically made my script keep trying to connect with an eventual timeout. Is this normal?? I’d expect it to work the first attempt.

Even if I try to open a connection in zterm, it takes a few tries to connect…first attempts will give a dialog saying FireFly-920F-SPP is not available but if I keep trying it’ll go through

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I’m having the same kinds of connection problems with my setup using the BlueTooth Mate and OS X (10.6.4) as well… :frowning:

The OS X - System Preference - BlueTooth pane shows the device as “Not Connected”, yet I get errors telling me it’s busy when I try a connection.

The errors are different depending on the app I’m testing with but always has something to do with being busy. ???

When it finally does connect, the System Preference pane shows as “Connected”.

Have you or anyone found a solution to this problem yet?