Thanks for your help,
We have tried to work along the lines you suggested, but don't really
know where to bulk of our problem lies. We have tried to simply write a
number to a serial port using the vi's attached below as suggested in
LabVIEW (we even shorted pins 2 and 3 and received no return loop, we
removed all of the error signals in the examples given by National
Instruments). We have also written a basic bluetooth command program to
try to establish a connection through LabVIEW.
The main question we have yet to solve:
- Can we send commands to a Com port that Hyperterminal is
connected to form LabVIEW, or does Hyperterminal take control of the
port?
- The Advanced Bluetooth Client.vi given by National Instruments
works to recognize our robot's bluetooth service, what then must be
added to our program to send numbers to the robot - either through the
bluetooth commands or the serial port commands?
- Will our solution most likely involve both a bluetooth connection
and a serial port connection, or can all of the data be sent through
bluetooth?
- When connecting to Hyperterminal, the only settings that are changed are to ensure that it will connect properly are:
- In the File>Properties window, under the ASCII Setup button, we check only the:
- Send line ends with line feeds box
- Echo typed characters locally box
- Append line feeds to incoming line ends box
- Wrap lines that exceed terminal width box
Our intents are rather simple. We want to send a simple number to a
bluetooth device. We know what com port it is connected to, Com 8, and
we simply want to open a Bluetooth connection and send numbers that it
will understand, nothing else.
Thanks for your time,
Stewart and Phil Dawsey
