#12: Shearwater Petrel (and Predator) -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: joebar | Owner: Type: task | jefdriesen Priority: minor | Status: Version: 0.4 | new Keywords: Shearwater Petrel, | Component: Bluetooth, connection | Device communication | Resolution: | Plattform (please give specifics in | the ticket text): Windows -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- \ \ \ \ \ \
Comment (by jefdriesen):
One possibility is that the bluetooth serial emulation isn't always working very well. At least that's the impression I have when trying to download from my petrel or frog. Sometimes downloading suddenly fails (with an error message on the petrel), for no obvious reason. But when I switch to my prototype native bluetooth communication, the problems disappears. I'm not sure whether this is a similar problem or not.
I have uploaded a build with native bluetooth enabled to the libdivecomputer website:
http://www.libdivecomputer.org/builds/experimental/windows/universal- bluetooth.exe
Run it with the following arguments:
universal-bluetooth.exe -v -l petrel.log -d petrel.xml -b petrel <MAC>
Replace <MAC> with the bluetooth mac address of your petrel. You should be able to find it somewhere in the device manager (sorry don't remember exactly where). It's a number that looks like 00:11:22:33:44:55. Also note that there is only support for the Microsoft bluetooth stack. It won't work with alternatives like the widcomm stack. \ \ \
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