Bluetooth, PDA, serial connection, remote control...you get the drift.

February 6, 2009 7:32 AM

I want a Bluetooth-enabled PDA to control (send arbitrary data to) a generic serial device using a serial-Bluetooth adapter. Has this software been written already or is it up to me?

I have a PDA with inbuilt Bluetooth and I want to control a serial device with something like this. Will I have to write the software for the PDA myself? All the software I've seen, which there's a lot of (both freeware and shareware) expects a host PC connection and some kind of handshake between the software running on the PC and the software running on the PDA. But I don't want the PC - I just want to send ordinary serial data based on keypresses from the PDA.

posted by ostranenie to computers & internet (3 comments total)

kinda depends on your PDA. I had a Palm Tungsten T3 that could do this. You might be able to open a serial connection with PocketPutty on Windows Mobile...

so... What kind of PDA do you have?
posted by jrishel at 9:17 AM on February 6

Just your typical PocketPC. Windows Mobile.

I'm looking for something like Novii or OmniRemote, but for Bluetooth and with generic serial commands. Pebbles would be great but it's proprietary and only works with a computer.

So.. nothing out there will do this? Really?
posted by ostranenie at 9:44 AM on February 6

If you end up deciding you need to roll your own, and if your pda has a reasonably complete Java implementation, you could use this brief howto I wrote a while ago as a starting point.
posted by hattifattener at 1:39 PM on February 6