Get COM port associated with Bluetooth devices

[Strokes]

Hey,

I would like to be able to programatically find the list of Bluetooth devices currently paired with a machine and their associated COM ports.

I can list both of these individually using the snippet below. 

However, I need to know which COM port is associated with which device... this is where I'm hitting a brick wall.

I seen similar threads here and here but not finding them particularly helpful.

Anyone make any progress on this issue?

Strokes

[tyk007]

I don't have any Blurtooth COM ports myself, but I have had to do some work with USB Virtual COM Ports where I needed similar information for some lab tests. Attached is a quick and dirty VI that obtained the Serial Port info that I needed.

I requires .Net 2.0 or greater to use the WMI API. You can see that it requests different named parameters from each found Serial Port (eg. "Description") - in my case I'm only retriving three. Here is a link that describes all the property names and what they mean:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa394413(v=vs.85).aspx

The first word in the acronym WMI in Windows so this will obviously only work on a Windows OS with .Net 2.0 or greater.

Maybe this will help get you started in the right direction. If it doesn't give you what you need, and no-one else here can help, then you could look further at the WMI API to see if there is anything there Bluetooth oriented.

[Strokes]

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@tyk007 wrote:

I don't have any Blurtooth COM ports myself, but I have had to do some work with USB Virtual COM Ports where I needed similar information for some lab tests. Attached is a quick and dirty VI that obtained the Serial Port info that I needed.

I requires .Net 2.0 or greater to use the WMI API. You can see that it requests different named parameters from each found Serial Port (eg. "Description") - in my case I'm only retriving three. Here is a link that describes all the property names and what they mean:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa394413(v=vs.85).aspx

The first word in the acronym WMI in Windows so this will obviously only work on a Windows OS with .Net 2.0 or greater.

Maybe this will help get you started in the right direction. If it doesn't give you what you need, and no-one else here can help, then you could look further at the WMI API to see if there is anything there Bluetooth oriented.

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Hi Tyk,

Appreciate the assistance, it seems to be a step in the right direction. I had a quick mess around with the WMI API and while useful, I couldn't find a method to retrieve the device name/ID that is associated with the COM ports.

I assume this should be possible somehow as Window's knows it...