I have a laser distance measurer, Leica Disto D8, that has bluetooth. I am trying to communicate with it with Arduino Uno. I bought the RN-42 bluetooth, but I am either stupid or missing something. Is there anyone out there who can look at the Leica Bluetooth online, and make suggestion as to how I would communicate with the RN-42 and Arduino Uno? Or, is there anyone who does this as a consultant who can help me? I think I am close, but I am missing something.
Hmm, just after a brief look, I’d guess what you’re trying to do is possible, but I’m not sure what you’re expecting to see. Have you logged the serial stream at all to look at the data? I suspect based on their application it’s just going to be Comma Separated Values (CSV) with line feeds to indicated the next “entry” but I’m not sure how you start that output, if it’s a query response type of thing, or if you have to tell it to “go” or if it just starts spewing values once you have bluetooth enabled.
Basically, you’re doing http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/323
http://www.sparkfun.com/news/726
It’s not a trivial hack, but you’ll learn a lot. Read through the comments on that second post, there are a ton of good links in there to get you started.
Step 1 for me would be to use an off the shelf USB-Bluetooth adapter on my PC or a laptop with Bluetooth built in and Hyperterminal or putty or the like. That removes any questions about if the Arduino or the RN42 is configured properly.
Once that communication path is established, then what you’ve learned doing that can be used to get the Arduino version working.