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Ray

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Handling device moving in and out of range.
« on: September 18, 2008, 08:25:23 PM »
I was wondering how your library handles disconnections (say for example if the bluetooth device goes out of range).  I am trying to connect to a device with the serial port profile using the Microsoft serial port class, but whenever the device disconnects, I can not re-open the com port right away (it usually takes 20 to 30 seconds).  I would like for this process to be much quicker (like how bluetooth headphones keep streaming data, and it doesn't matter if you go in and out of range - the connection is not lost).

Can your library handle this kind of scenario?

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Re: Handling device moving in and out of range.
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2008, 10:32:31 PM »
Good day!

You can download and try. The demo is availbale. Headphone use different connection. BT has 2 types of connections: SCO (synchroniouse) and ACL (Asynchronious). Streaming data uses SCO, RFCOMM based - ACL.

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Re: Handling device moving in and out of range.
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2008, 12:12:17 AM »
So I've got a little client program going, and I'm trying to connect to my device.  Except that it can't resolve the address of the device.

BFBluetoothDiscoveryX discover = new BFBluetoothDiscoveryX();
BFBluetoothRadioX BRadio = discover.EnumRadios().get_Radio(0);
BluetoothFrameworkX.BFBluetoothDeviceX Device = null; ;

BluetoothFrameworkX.BFBluetoothDevicesX m_Devices = discover.Discovery(BRadio, true, true, true);

for (int i = 0; i < m_Devices.Count; i++)
{
    Device = m_Devices.get_Device(i);
    if (Device.Name.Contains("Number 4")) break;
}
//I Do get a device here
           
BFClientX client = new BFClientX();
client.Transport = BFAPITransportX.atBluetooth;
client.BluetoothTransport.Device = Device;
client.Open();

When I run this code, I get an error "Code 10049 - the requrested address is not valid in its context."

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Re: Handling device moving in and out of range.
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2008, 10:50:21 AM »
This error means that the device does not support service which is setted by default for BFClient. Set the service to which you want connect to

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Re: Handling device moving in and out of range.
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2008, 08:04:05 PM »
I have a couple of questions.

Is the OnDisconnect mechanism supported?  When I try and use it I get an exception HRESULT: 0x80040202.

Is there any way to prevent the client from dropping the connection if the device goes out of range, so that it picks up the connection when it returns into range?

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Re: Handling device moving in and out of range.
« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2008, 09:44:23 PM »
It hard depends on stack impleentation. usually if client is out of range the low-leve driver sends Disconnect command. The only way is when client disconnected start monitoring for the client and when it back - call connect once again.
P.S. HandsFree/HeadSet device also drops the connection if it is out of range - just checked

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Re: Handling device moving in and out of range.
« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2008, 10:56:58 PM »
So would the speed of reconnecting be more dependent on the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack, or the driver, or the bluetooth device?  I don't have any problem with detecting if the device is disconnected - its just that the connect function takes so long to call after it's been disconnected.

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Re: Handling device moving in and out of range.
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2008, 11:31:23 AM »
reconnection speed is hard depends on hardware you use, target device, driver and lots of other things.

 

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