Getting started with Bluetooth?

[thatkeith]

Hi - asking for a friend... no I'm not, of course it's for me.

I want to make a tool to send signals to a Bluetooth-connected device, with the signals taking this sort of form:

dataStart|SIMPLE DELIMITED VALUES HERE|dataEnd

Is there a sample stack or 'getting started' instructions for communicating with a Bluetooth-connected device? I've looked through a few threads that touch on this but I'm afraid so far I'm none the wiser.

Keith

[dave.kilroy]

Hi Keith

There is mergBLE - if you have the Indie licence you get it free - you used to be able to buy it separately from mergext.com but it looks like that is no longer possible. If you can get access to it the pack includes a sample stack which should give you what you need.

Actually this page http://mergext.com/home/mergble/ on mergext.com will also give you some pointers...

Good luck!

Dave

[thatkeith]

I do have an Indie license (hurrah!) and there's a ton of things in the Dictionary under 'merg' including a fistful of mergBLE entries. But no example stack. Does anyone have anything that shows this, and is it something that I could have? Without any actual external would be fine – and probably preferable anyway, as newer internal language elements trump third-party externals every time.

k

[dave.kilroy]

Hi Keith - log into your account at livecode.com, click the mergExt tab and then click 'Download'

Then in the downloaded 'mergExt_Indy_Latest' folder, in 'the mergBLE-1.1.11' sub-folder open the 'mergBLE.livecode stack' and explore

Have fun!

Dave