How can I access a bluetooth usb device in LABVIEW

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How can I access a bluetooth usb device in LABVIEW. In manual it is given that it requires microsoft drivers. But my bluetooth device is not detected by the winxp service pack2.
Suggest me which bluetooth device is supported in windows xp as well as labview

[EdDickens]

If your Bluetooth device is not detected by the operating system, there's no way LabVIEW is going to be able to see it either. It sounds like the device itself might be faulty or the drivers are not installed correctly.

Is this a device to add Bluetooth to your computer, or is a device that communicates via Bluetooth.

For adding Bluetooth to a machine, I've used Belkins USB dongles with pretty good luck, but getting the drivers installed if you are running WinXP SP2 can be a problem. The Windows BT drivers seem to be a big problem. From what I've learned, you must use drivers supplied by the device manufacturer, and this can be difficult.

If this seems to be your problem, let me know and I'll try and walk you through the process.

Ed

[chaitanya_k]

sir ,

    i am also using the usb bluetooth dongle which adds bluetooth to my PC .but actully it is given that labview uses microsoft bluetooth driver ,which comes along with the win xp sp 2 but we are unable to install the driver of microsoft to my device.but i am sure that it is working with other driver and i can able to transfer the data between my PC and NOKIA 6600 mobile.so problem with driver of microsoft .is there any other way to detect bluetooth in labview which uses it's manufacturers driver by writing some DLL's of our own.

[Magicbotolo]

Goog morning, i've a question about use of USB-Bluetooth devices. I use two USB-Bluetooth adapter with two computers. On the first pc i have a string control and a button to submit data to the second pc. On the second pc i have a string indicator that read data on serial buffer and display them. If i use this VI when pc are connected with serial cable i obtain the transfer of data. I i substitute serial cable with COM port created by Bluetooth adapter (in my case COM4) i can't send data from a pc to the other. Why? I can see that serial bluetooth communication start (because i see indication near windows' clock of serial port opening) and finish (also near windows' clock) but i can't send data. Thanks!

[Andy F.]

Bluetooth communication in LabVIEW currently is limited to the Windows drvier.  If you are interested in this, check out the tutorial below:

Developing Bluetooth Applications with LabVIEW

If the third party driver is not using the Windows driver, then it will be a little more difficult.  However, if the documentation is good enough for the driver you may be able to use the Call Library Function Node in LabVIEW to communicate.  It may be easier to set up a different communication method however, as posted below:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=140&message.id=14727&requireLogin=False

Hope this helps!
Andy F.

[chaitanya_k]

can i know what are the bluetooth adapters that are avilable and which use the bluetooth driver provided by microsoft i.e microsoft bluetooth driver stack included in win xp sp 2.please send some names of the company r manufacturers of the bluetooth adapters,which are avialble in  market.so that i can shift to that bluetooth adapter.

[Andy F.]

I checked around and was not able to find a list that outlines which bluetooth devices use the Microsoft drivers.  I did find some discussion about the TDK adapter on the discussion forums though.

Bluetooth and TDK

If you find an adapter, you might contact that manufacturer to see if they use the driver or not.  Anyone have any additional input about which devices that you have gotten to work?

Andy F.