LuanV

Hello,

Is there a way to assign inbound and outbound bluetooth communications to the same X51 virtual serial port? Or is there a way to have 2 virual serial ports open at once?

I have an X51 with WM2003 SE and I'm trying to control a data acquisition (DAQ)system with my PDA via bluetooth. I believe I've installed WIDCOMM Bluetooth driver version 1.4 (whatever came with LabVIEW PDA Module 7.1). I was able to setup a virtual serial port connection between my X51 and the DAQ, however the virtual serial port settings are automatically assigned (by the driver?) to be Inbound COM Port 8 and Outbound COM Port 7 and I don't know how to change this.

My problem is. with separate inbound/outbound ports, I don't know how to send the command to the DAQ to start outputting data on one port and then switch over to a different port to input that data. As far as I can tell, the outbound port (COM7) won't input the datastream, the inbound port (COM8) won't send the command requesting the data, and both ports can't be open at the same time. I believe the DAQ system commands and settings are correct because this routine works with my desktop collecting DAQ data via bluetooth (that uses a single inbound/outbound port).

Any suggestions? So far I've only worked on small LabVIEW programs and on mToken (kind of a hyperterminal for PDAs), so any input about different software would be helpful as well.

thanks in advance,
Luan