Dear all,

The following question is about a way to connect my simulator to  
XCSoar on a android phone via BT. Forgive me if I use terms  
erroneously; I'm not a developer but an end-user.
A few months ago I switched from a Windows Mobile device to an Android  
device and therefore started to use XCSoar.
Since version 6.0.5, BT connections are supported. I can now find my  
Mac in the devices menu.
With this feature I hoped to be able to connect to my simulator  
(SilentWings on Mac OS X) via BT and let the simulator work as a  
virtual GPS.
SilentWings is able to send NMEA output to a serial device (using the  
SPP/RFCOMM profile?), though not using a PPP/modem profile (this is  
what I understand from the developers, forgive me if I'm wrong).
When I connected my WM6 device to my Mac via BT the serial service  
from that device was advertised. To connect Silentwings to my device I  
simply let the NMEA sentences stream to this serial service and it  
worked.
My Android device does not advertise a serial service, when connected  
to my Mac. I guess that XCSoar uses a BT modem protocol anyhow?

So my question is: how can I connect XCSoar to SilentWings via BT? I  
was thinking about a way to redirect the serial NMEA stream to a BT  
modem stream on my Mac first, but I don't know how.
If XCSoar is using a SPP/RFCOMM protocol, how can I let my Android  
device advertise serial services to my Mac?

Hoping on a good answer after 3 months of try and error...
Thanks in advance,

Reno


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