So I've been rejected from blueradios fourm. So I have no access to the "full documentation". What kind of crap is that? I sent a terse reply asking for at least something till then we will just have to carry on.
So for the road test I wanted the documentation (being the EE that I am that is what I like to read anyway.) The magic paper on the inside said to register with blueradios.com. Which requires a weird number, and approval. fine whatever I'm going on without you documentation. Against my better judgement I might add.
Next I downloaded the zip file and opened it. Glory be.. a quick start guide and a demo program! Time to see what they WANT me to see. It's a good read despite one or two Ger-lish mistakes I lived in Germany for awhile so it just made me hungry for a donner kepab.) The quickstart guide simply takes you through setting up a connection and verifying it. That's it. I was sure there was MUCH more to play with then that. What about the buttons, the LEDs... Well let's at least do this.
I'm down at MakeICT with my laptop and am going to fire the program up on one of the PCs down at the space. Which is a great idea, except I am getting the The semaphore timeout period has expired. error on mine. My USB sometimes gets a little finiky so I moved it over to the same computer as the other one. What I found is I can querry on one but not the other. So while I have control over one with the default program, I don't with the other... Yet.
So begins my roadtest of the Bluetooth modules. First impression is nifty case! Open it up and a nice pair of usb dongles and a paper telling me to go to a website. It's in German. This may be a long road to test...
