Receive Data From Arduino Bluetooth

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I am using this in my Arduino board to transfer data via Bluetooth.

I wanted to know, how is it poosible to receive data sent by this BT on the PC using C#. What sort of a communication would it be?

Because Serial data is transmitted by this BT, how am I going to receive this data in a C# application.

Please help. I'm a newbie

Thanks

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score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 10 '19 at 12:55

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Here's a tutorial on C# serial comms.

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/serialcommunication.aspx

edited May 10 '19 at 12:55

Chris Stratton

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answered Jul 08 '10 at 09:39

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Hi, in addition to putting RN41 on Arduino board, I would be using a Bluetooth Dongel on my desktop to communicate with Arduino, right? So, do you mean that the dongel would communicate serially on a COM port with the computer? Thanks – Jayesh Jul 09 '10 at 05:28
@Electric_90 please stop making pointless edits to old posts, all you accomplish is getting them closed. Further your attempted link hiding is detrimental, especially if the link should rot it is easier to relocate the resource when the original URL is visible. – Chris Stratton May 10 '19 at 12:53

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '10 at 13:44

To add onto Joby's answer.

Many bluetooth solutions I have used allow you to have tunneled serial. This means that you will just see a com port.

Advanced warning. I have installed drivers for this before and they resulted in about 15 COM ports existing on my computer. They just hang out and annoy me when I am not using bluetooth and am using a different serial port, like an FTDI chip.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 12 '17 at 07:29

You have a few options. I'll start by saying that to spy on a Bluetooth connection already in progress is very difficult unless you have access to one of the connected peers. By access, I mean the ability to start up a Bluetooth stack sniffer. I don't know of one for Windows, so we're left with Linux.

Option 1: "Linux option"

"Sniff" the traffic on the Bluetooth connection in Linux, simply run this command:

hcidump -X

Which will dump all Bluetooth I/O to and from your PC to the screen.

Option 2: "Electronics option"

Another, more electronics oriented solution is to spy on the I/O communications on one of the peers.

Receive Data From Arduino Bluetooth

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