sending data over Bluetooth: problematic if data size exceeds some Kilobytes !!??

[huss81]

Hi All,
I am working on the following: I have a microcontroller and a Nokia N70 mobile phone that communicate with each other over virtual COM port (phone: SPP). I send from the phone a command that is executed by the microcontroller and i get the textual result. This works fine. I have also implemented rotuines for sending/receiving files from phone to MC and vice versa. Sending files from phone to MC works very fine with files of nearly any size. On the other side there is a strange problem when trying to receive (file) data from MC. If data size exceeds some few kilobytes (according to my tests less or more 5 or 6 kbytes), the phone application hangs and blocks !? Receiving small files up to 2-3 kbytes works fine. When using another communication programm written for a notebook i receive the entire file of any size --> it is a nokia problem.... I have heard and read that some Nokia phone have this problem? Has anyone had these problems? Are there good workarounds?

PS: I open a FileConnection for SPP profie and then using "openOutputStream" and "openInputStream". As i said i can communicate very well and even send data files, BUT receiving relativ big data sizes makes problems!!!!???


PPS: I read data bytewise with "myInputStream.read()" and write the read byte
directly to file. I do this in a loop until file content (i get file size at the very beginning) is read.


I am thankful for every help.....


Best regards,
Huss

[huss81]

Hi,

The problem is solved :-). It seems that receiving relatively big amount of data all at once "freezes" the bluetooth protocol stack. I changed my file transfer routines such that after each 512 bytes of data the receiver acknowledges the sender with a "CONTINUE_FILE_TRANSMISSION"-Signal (1Byte). After that the sender proceeds his work. I can know send and receive files of nearly any
size. I hope this might help some one who is having the same problem...



Bye,
Huss

[mahbub_s60]

Hi,
From stack we can ask maximum supported length and then it can be acted accordingly, see in BT_Sock.H following items.
KL2CAPGetMaxOutboundMTU,
KL2CAPGetMaxInboundMTU,

[huss81]

Hi,
first thanks for your suggestion, but i am writing my phone application in java.. Is there an equivalent class/interface which
provide this info...



Best regards,
Huss

[say2paul]

Hi,
first thanks for your suggestion, but i am writing my phone application in java.. Is there an equivalent class/interface which
provide this info...



Best regards,
Huss

Huss huss huss, Can you please guide me through sending data from Nokia N70 to a microcontroller using bluetooth.

[huss81]

Hi,
In order to communicate with your MC over Bluetooth, your MC must have obviously a Bluetooth modul. I use in my project the "Bluenicecomm3" modul that is directly wired (hardware) to the pins of one of the UARTs of my MC. This is useful as all what you need to do in your application running on MC is to program the proper Interrupt Service Routine for the corresponding UART where you simply can read the data received over Bluetooth. Sending data is as simple. When this is available you need to use the Java ME Bluetooth classes and interfaces to connect and send/receive data to/from MC. Clarifying what exactly is to be done is difficult to post here. Hava a look at the classes and interfaces in the java package "javax.bluetooth.*". If you then have further precise questins i can help...


Huss

[say2paul]

Hi,
In order to communicate with your MC over Bluetooth, your MC must have obviously a Bluetooth modul. I use in my project the "Bluenicecomm3" modul that is directly wired (hardware) to the pins of one of the UARTs of my MC. This is useful as all what you need to do in your application running on MC is to program the proper Interrupt Service Routine for the corresponding UART where you simply can read the data received over Bluetooth. Sending data is as simple. When this is available you need to use the Java ME Bluetooth classes and interfaces to connect and send/receive data to/from MC. Clarifying what exactly is to be done is difficult to post here. Hava a look at the classes and interfaces in the java package "javax.bluetooth.*". If you then have further precise questins i can help...


Huss

Can anyone help on Symbian part for IR communication.

[nev3r0ng]

hiya huss,

I am also trying to do some hing of similar nature and trying to send some data from micro controller using blue tooth. How ever my mc is reading from a serial data line. Any chances you can help me out wih that.

Regards
Syed