Re: Any Bluetooth components out there yet
From: Roger Lascelles (rogerlasAToptusnet.com.au)
Date: 04/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:16:44 +1000
Exactly what I have found - Bluetooth is problematic.
1. If you use Microsoft Bluetooth stack, you can't use applications which
require proprietary stack.
2. If you use proprietary stack, you can't use app which requires Microsoft
stack.
3. So it is difficult to build something which you can roll out generally -
you have to control which Bluetooth stack your users install - not always
possible since people have mobile phones, printers etc.
4. For an engineering application I am working on, we are building *both*
ends of our Bluetooth link in our own hardware and connecting the PC end via
the serial port. It is a pain, but it lets us hand out our application to
run on PCs anywhere without us having to handle all the Windows
compatibility and driver issues. Remember, if you make something which has
to survive over serveral years and run on numerous PCs, support can kill you
if you make the wrong decisions.
"Eugene Mayevski [SecureBlackbox]" <mayevski@eldos.org> wrote in message
news:408fee4b@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Well, there are in fact two Bluetooth APIs -- Microsoft's (built into XP
> sp1) and Widcomm's. Widcomm bluetooth stack is quite widespread, but the
> SDK costs just enormous amount of money and doesn't let one develop
> middleware with it (i.e. the DLLs included into SDK can be only deployed
> with end-user software). Microsoft's bluetooth API is accessed via
> bluetooth sockets, but unfortunately very few hardware supports it.
> I think this is one of the main reasons why bluetooth standard loses the
> competition with wi-fi.
>
> --
> Eugene Mayevski
> EldoS Corp., CTO
> Security and networking solutions
> http://www.eldos.com
>
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