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- mini577 - July 21, 2009
Hello,
I just got back from a 1300 mile race and used a combination of a bluetooth nmea repeater and Trimble Yuma running Maxsea onboard that worked incredibly well. Is there a possibility of adding bluetooth "serial" capability so that we can use instrument / AIS data without having to have a PC onboard repeating all of the data to the phone??
Having a PC or MAC seems like a lot of extra money and trouble to make this work properly??
Thanks!
Drew Wood
- GPSNavX - July 21, 2009
So far Apple has not opened up a Serial Port profile to BT devices as I previously noted here ..
http://macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/768/
One can use a WiFi serial repeater (in lieu of a laptop) though ..
http://www.digi.com/products/serialservers/digiconnectwisp.jsp
- ebgb - July 24, 2009
apple's iphone policy as regards bluetooth absolutely stinks
almost makes having bluetooth on the phone a complete waste of time
you can do proper stuff with it though but you need to unshackle the phone from apple. I unlocked/jailbroke mine with pwnage and it opens up an enormous new world of possibilities.