Hi Claudiu, I have tested the native Bluetooth support on Windows on two laptops: 1) Windows 8.1 on an HP laptop with onboard Broadcom 43142 Bluetooth adapter - an awful combined Bluetooth/Wifi device that does not like Linux (buggy for Wifi, even with the proprietary kernel module, and very very buggy to the extent that I use a dongle instead), but appears to function fine with Windows 2) 32 bit (but 64 bit hardware) Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 on ASUS laptop with onboard Broadcom BT-253 (no troubles with this adapter on either Windows or Linux)
On 9 August 2015 at 01:26, Claudiu Olteanu < olteanu.vasilica.clau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I wanted to let you know that I finished the implementation of the > native Bluetooth support on Windows platforms. > > If you have a dive computer with Bluetooth support from HW_OSTC3 or > Shearwater family it would be very useful if you will help me to do > some tests. You can download the installer from here[1]. > > The download transfer is supposed to work on Windows platforms > greater than or equal to Windows XP SP 2. > You should know that if your local Bluetooth device is > not using the Windows Bluetooth stack and uses another one > (WINCOMM, Soleil, etc.) it will not work. > > Currently I tested the installer on 4 laptops with their integrated > Bluetooth adapter: > - Lenovo Y50 (OS: Windows 8.1) > - Lenovo Y510p (OS: Windows 8.1, Windows 7 (VM), Windows XP SP2 (VM)) > - Acer Aspire One D260 (OS: Windows 7) > - Dell Latitude e5430 (OS: Windows 8.1) > > On some environments the pairing step took more than expected > and the download process got stuck. If you encounter the same > problem please try to manually pair the devices. > Pairing in Subsurface works on the Windows 8.1 machine (Broadcom 43142), but not on the Vista machine (Broadcom BT-253) - download fails with No device found. > > Also on my virtual machines with Windows 7 and Windows XP SP2 sometimes > the name of the devices are not displayed correctly (they are empty). > Initially on the Windows 8.1 machine, the device name wasn't displayed, but now it is (after a successful pairing and download) On the Vista machine, the device name was displayed, even before I had paired. > If you have any issues/questions, please let me know. > Other than the pairing issue on the older machine, download works as expected. Nice work! I like that pairing is now 'invisible' to the user. But it would be good if you could detect when downloading fails, and provide a more meaningful message to prompt the user to pair manually (this goes for all systems, not just Windows). I didn't need to download the Microsoft C++ package on either system. I can't remember doing it previously for either computer, but the Vista laptop is old, so there's a chance I did in the past and forgot about it. > > Have a nice weekend, > Claudiu > > [1] - > https://www.dropbox.com/s/pz03kd0qno05m45/subsurface-4.4.2-1329-ge45e3f0e8392.exe?dl=0 > Cheers, Rick
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