I am not aware of a way to have simultaneous WiFi connections on any of the devices I have. I would expect that you would have to have multiple WiFi NICs to do it.
I was hoping to use Torque on a Nook Color I recently rooted, but it doesn't have Bluetooth. Darn. Sent from my iPad > On Oct 8, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Tim Crone <bb...@crone.us> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> Exactly. > > If you have a wifi OBD reader does that mean you can't connect using a wifi > AP (e.g. a mifi or the like) at the same time? I admit I've never tried to > have two wifi connections at the same time on a phone, seems like it could > work if you had two receivers. > > A limitation for Bluetooth readers, at least until recently, is that the BT > scanner can only connect to one client at a time. Now there is a free Torque > add-on that lets you daisy-chain connections, so you can have multiple > clients (e.g. a phone in the dash, and a tablet that you are using for doing > something else), but I think that only works with Torque. I am assuming that > the WiFi readers never had this limitation, and you could connect multiple > clients to a single reader. > > A Bluetooth reader should not hog power, if the connection is lost (e.g. > distance) then the app shuts down until the connection is re-established by > the OS. > > Best, > Tim > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
