- Sun Jul 13, 2014 12:09 pm
#172649
I purchased one of the Roving Network RN42-XV Bluetooth modems in XBee footprint as well as one of the USB Bluetooth dongles. I've been fighting with them for multiple hours trying to get them to pair properly - first few times they paired and the RN42-XV showed up as a Bluetooth keyboard (!!!). I plugged it into an XBee Regulated Explorer (assuming it should work since it has the same footprint as an XBee) and attempted to use the Arduino serial monitor at 115200 baud to switch it from the HID stack to SPP stack:
I must be doing something trivial wrong - I have tried 2 different dongles and 2 different RN42-XVs, so I know it must be user error - could anyone point me to a step-by-step tutorial on how to get the basics for these things working (if such a thing exists!!?!?) I am not new to hobby electronics and have created sophisticated embedded solutions with XBees, but these Bluetooth units are frustrating me! I
Many thanks in advance for any guidance / insight you can provide...
-Garrett
http://brewznet.wordpress.com
- The $$$ command seemed to work OK and put it into config mode, as the light on the RN42-XV blinked faster once I entered $$$ with "No line ending"
- I executed commands S~,0 and R,1 which seemed to reset the modem and the blinking slowed again - although i did not see any response in the terminal window of "AOK" as I was expecting
- I removed and re-paired the RN42-XV with the PC a second time, and this time it instealled as a Standard Serial over Bluetooth link (COM9 and COM10)
I must be doing something trivial wrong - I have tried 2 different dongles and 2 different RN42-XVs, so I know it must be user error - could anyone point me to a step-by-step tutorial on how to get the basics for these things working (if such a thing exists!!?!?) I am not new to hobby electronics and have created sophisticated embedded solutions with XBees, but these Bluetooth units are frustrating me! I
Many thanks in advance for any guidance / insight you can provide...
-Garrett
http://brewznet.wordpress.com