is the standard (non-LE) blutooth supported ?

[embeddedmz]

Can I use this library to communicate with a standard (non-LE) bluetooth device ? At the moment I'm using a C++/Qt program to communicate via bluetooth and I'd like to do the communication in the C# program to reduce complexity and bugs.

[DamianSuess]

At this time, that has not been in-scope. If there is a strong need, we can make it happen and balance out the Bluetooth scales of LE and Classic

[embeddedmz]

Thank you for your feedback. I hope the feature will be added as I haven't found any NuGet package to do this. I'm going to look into this problem in August and see if I can do something by executing commands in the C# code.

[DamianSuess]

You're welcome, @embeddedmz. I'll toss it on the backlog to give it visibility as a feature request 👍

[embeddedmz]

First, I'll code my program only for Windows using the NuGet InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth package, then, if I'm lucky and standard bluetooth can be used with Linux.Bluetooth, I'll convert it using the latter.

I've just checked that InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth doesn't work under Linux inthehand/32feet#321

[embeddedmz]

Hi @DamianSuess

I have some free time, if it's easy to add the RFComm protocol, can you tell me what I can do ?

My goal is to run this code on Linux (I need to have a Stream object)

using InTheHand.Net;
using InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth;
using InTheHand.Net.Sockets;

namespace QuickBTTest
{
    internal class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            byte[] outBuffer = new byte[12];
            byte[] inBuffer = new byte[40];

            outBuffer[0] = (byte)'$';
            outBuffer[1] = (byte)'P';
            outBuffer[2] = (byte)'R';
            outBuffer[3] = 12;
            outBuffer[4] = 0;
            outBuffer[5] = 100;
            outBuffer[6] = 0;
            outBuffer[7] = 50;
            outBuffer[8] = 0;
            outBuffer[9] = 200;
            ushort cs = 0;
            for (int i = 1; i < 10; i++)
            {
                cs = (ushort)(cs + outBuffer[i]);
            }
            outBuffer[10] = (byte)(cs >> 8);
            outBuffer[11] = (byte)cs;

            string address = "AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF";

            BluetoothAddress addr = BluetoothAddress.Parse(address);
            BluetoothClient client = new BluetoothClient();
            client.Connect(addr, BluetoothService.SerialPort);
            //client.Connected;

            var stream = client.GetStream();

            stream.Write(outBuffer, 0, outBuffer.Length);
            int ret = stream.Read(inBuffer, 0, inBuffer.Length);

            Console.WriteLine("Rcvd '{0}' bytes", ret);

            stream.Close();
            client.Close();
        }
    }
}