Windows RT Bluetooth
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A colleague of mine informed me that he was informed (I love hearsay), by a MS employee/evangelist that there is essentially no Bluetooth stack to work with. This seems quite insane and a very bad move (IMO) by MS... But not shocking. However I can neither confirm nor deny it. There is nothing that I am seeing on the web that implies this one way or the other. Note: I am not talking about traditional Bluetooth devices that have set standards that the OS can pair with (e.g. keyboard, mouse, headset etc.). I am referring to a Bluetooth device that would send binary data of some sort e.g. connect to a sensor using the 4.0 stack or connect to a PAN using 2.1 stack. Anyone know if this is true or not and have any links to the info?
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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A colleague of mine informed me that he was informed (I love hearsay), by a MS employee/evangelist that there is essentially no Bluetooth stack to work with. This seems quite insane and a very bad move (IMO) by MS... But not shocking. However I can neither confirm nor deny it. There is nothing that I am seeing on the web that implies this one way or the other. Note: I am not talking about traditional Bluetooth devices that have set standards that the OS can pair with (e.g. keyboard, mouse, headset etc.). I am referring to a Bluetooth device that would send binary data of some sort e.g. connect to a sensor using the 4.0 stack or connect to a PAN using 2.1 stack. Anyone know if this is true or not and have any links to the info?
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
I suspect that what he's referring to comes from this[^].
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I suspect that what he's referring to comes from this[^].
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
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While that is useful it does not cover his implications. He implied there is "No way" to connect to a Bluetooth device on RT if it is not one of the standard items (headset etc.) regardless of the Bluetooth integration (i.e. can be USB). But interesting to note... I have a laptop that has integrated Bluetooth. This implies that internally the bluetooth is actually landing on the USB. I would have expected I²C...
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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While that is useful it does not cover his implications. He implied there is "No way" to connect to a Bluetooth device on RT if it is not one of the standard items (headset etc.) regardless of the Bluetooth integration (i.e. can be USB). But interesting to note... I have a laptop that has integrated Bluetooth. This implies that internally the bluetooth is actually landing on the USB. I would have expected I²C...
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
Collin Jasnoch wrote:
implies that internally the bluetooth is actually landing on the USB
That's kind of what I was trying to point out from that link. That's exactly where the Bluetooth would be landing as that's the "stack" that MS supports.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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Collin Jasnoch wrote:
implies that internally the bluetooth is actually landing on the USB
That's kind of what I was trying to point out from that link. That's exactly where the Bluetooth would be landing as that's the "stack" that MS supports.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
Ahhhh.. I see. Good point. That is quite unfortunate, and a failure IMO. Oh well. Guess the iPads will continue to dominate. :sigh:
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.