I am trying to set up a system for wireless control of my 4WD rover using Bluetooth. The project is going well, but one thing which is driving me crazy is that I can’t bring up the IDE while the Bluetooth connection is enabled - it hangs during the “Find AtomPro” step, apparently while testing COM6: (the Bluetooth port) to see if it is connected to the robot’s programming port. Has anyone else seen this? is there a way to set up the IDE to always try COM3: first?
Yes, this is an issue with the Windows serial port routines and blue tooth adapters. I ran into it when i was playing with a bluetooth module I had. I traced it back to a system call hanging and never returning(eg it froze the IDE at that point). There is currentl;y no workaround to fix the problem(its in system code, not IDE code). You basically can’t use the Find function when using Bluetooth adapters. You have to manually select the correct comport.
Note that this is not necessarily a problem with ALL Blue Tooth adapters. I was using a BluSmirf when I found this bug. I don’t know if different Blutooth modules will show the same problem.
