Comments on: HOWTO: Mac OS X Bluetooth Serial Port

By: darryl ramm’s blog » SeeYou Mobile Driven from Silent Wings (on a Mac) over Bluetooth

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:43:35 +0000

[...] to Tod Kurt for a nice blog with Bluetooth configuration instructions that helped inspired me to document this clearly. The [...]

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 11 May 2007 00:11:05 +0000

Thanks TodBot, I’m going to be playing a lot with bluetooth over the next few months, and thanks to you I’ve taken the first steps (hooked up to my BT GPS unit and extracted my position from the serial port!). Really great article!

By: Larry cooke

Larry cooke — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:05:07 +0000

Also check out the BlueConsole Bluetooth serial adapter. This product has complete documentation for Mac OS X, and also is able to power itself from existing RS232 handshaking leads. You can find info and Mac OS X documentation at http://www.blueconsole.com

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:51:52 +0000

RE:
‘There is another issue with panter. After I changed the key I tried to setup the serial port. But under panter the required button is missing.’

In step 6 above, Panther does not allow you to “edit serial ports” so you can access the “Bluetooth Serial Utility” found in your “/Applications/Utilities” folder. You can then select “new” and set up your serial port.
Select your BlueRadio device and click “edit” then set your “port type” to RS-232″

By: Michael de Silva

Michael de Silva — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:49:12 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, I might expand on this a bit at some point. The crucial bit was â€œEdit Serial Portsâ€¦â€ – which created the alias under /dev/.

I used ATSW20,472,0,0,1 for 115.2k and ATSW20,944,0,0,1 for 230.4k. Note the ’1′ at the end permanently stores the change in flash, so it’s best to leave it out when testing ;)

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 06:02:55 +0000

Excellent. Just what I needed to get past the “Tiger gets confused” part. :-) Thanks

-Martin

By: Andrew Turner

Andrew Turner — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 16:16:28 +0000

I’m having difficulty getting this to work correctly on my Mac. I have done the above steps, can set the baud rate, and put it into Data mode. Though what’s odd is that despite whatever baud rate I set it to, I can still do AT in any other baud rate set in ZTerm.

Anyways, I then Hang-up and quit ZTerm and open the RoombaMidi. It connects, but when I try to get sensors, RoombaMidi complains “couldn’t read Roomba. Is it connected?”.

It’s an older Discovery with firmware upgraded with the scheduler upgrade kit. All the lights come on the Roomba when I plugin the RooTooth, so the firmware should be good enough.Â

Any ideas?

By: Spes

Spes — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 03:14:24 +0000

There is another issue with panter. After I changed the key I tried to setup the serial port. But under panter the required button is missing.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:06:12 +0000

You can also use iStumbler to pair with non-numeric passkeys on Panther (10.3).

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 28 May 2006 23:00:51 +0000

FYI: Looks like this requires “Tiger” on the Mac. My Pather box will only accept numbers when entering the “passkey”. I’m going to use a Tiger box later and change the passkey to be numeric only and try again.