Hi Emulating bluetooth connection in emulator?

[julie_777]

Hi,
I wrote a bluetooth application when i tested it on device it exited abruptly..
now i wish to debug ...but how?
can i connect two emulators for debugging bluetooth application...?
if so how can anyone help me?
regards
Julie

[plaursen]

Hi!

Had the same problem.
I bought the BH4-X driver to make BT working. Best $30 I've spent for a while...

I turns out that the very common BT USB adaptors/dongles are not directly supported by the emulators. AFAIU, the Emulators expect to see the HCI interface of a BT device, and the USB deviecs (and their drivers) do not provide this. The BH4-X driver is installed in place of the 'normal' driver for the BT USB device, and provides the HCI interface as a a COM port to the emulator (purist may disagree, but that's how it looks to me

Seems to work on the 2.1 SDK, too (tried BTDiscovery example briefly).

BH4-X ref: www.cyberabi.com (and no, I'm not affiliated in any way)

My app talks over BT to a physical BT device, so I haven't tried emulated communications. Try searching for NCF (Nokia Communications Framework) - it appears to be intended for such tasks.

Alternative: specific RS232/PCMCIA BT devices directly supported by the emulator. See also the NOKIA document "Setting up and using bluetooth hw with development tools" .


/Per

[plaursen]

Follow-up:
The BHX-4 driver seems to be suitable for development only It has BSOD'd my PC once, and seems to require that the BT dongle is absent at PC power-up. Anyway- styill better than nothing.