Bluetooth Chat

You are not posting in the correct forum.

Where would you like me to post it and can you move it there?

I've moved it. The Bluetooth tutorial includes a working example.
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Blurtooth Chat

Erel,
Thanks for moving my issue. I am able to get the Bluetooth example to work but the replies are in Hex not ASCII. I am trying to get the Chat example working but progress is slow. Is there a way to alter the BT example to read the messages in Hex?:sign0188:

Hi Todh

you are lucky because you are receiving something.. I am sending but not receiving any data in any form.. working on this though...
Regarding your question, and if I am to put my two cents, then I believe the receiving side, that's your code is responsible to convert the received string back to byte type. I think all radio transmissions are string type even if you packaged the transmitted data in byte array.

The bluetooth tutorial example worked for me. My android device is a SGT2 7.0. For the remote end I am using a KCwirefree BT radio connected to a FTDI USB to rx, tx converter from a PC.

I made two changes to the bluetooth example code, one for non-prefix mode, the other for connect insecure. Both of these changes can be found in B4A posts. I will migrate to prefix mode, once my programming skills improve. For now progress is good, and learning quickly.

I have used TeraTerm on PC to verify duplex communications. I will also be working with embedded application. To reduce hardware devices, and improve debugging, I am using VB6 application to emulate the embedded system communications dialog. VB6 communications also works using MSCOMM, in text mode.

Bluetooth Chat issues

I have the Bluetooth example working as well with the following change:
AStream.Initialize(Main.serial1.InputStream, Main.serial1.OutputStream, "AStream")
I now have the byte converter working as well, you must "Dim Conv As ByteConverter" in the Chat Activity area before using the conversion utility. Much like VB.NET.
msg2(1) = Conv.HexFromBytes(Buffer) is working but needs adjustment to get the correct values. Coding is a tough sport! Especially for the novice.
I have yet to get the Bluetooth Chat example working but I may not need it now.

It took a while and learning how to speak b4a. I now have the Bluetooth Chat example working and communicating with my tri-axial accelerometer. Finally I can begin coding. I needed ASCII tables to get the correct hex requests to send. :sign0060: