ssharpe

Applied my brain and wondered if it was to do with the bluetooth switching. Removed BT from the config file and the start up time is the same as starting TT6 direct, so I assume the delay is some compatability effect with loox 720 BT stack. However as TT6 turns on bluetooth on the 720 when it starts it is not a problem.

Once again thanks for the great little app.

nivanov

thanks for the info. The api call I make is not to the bluetooth device itself, but rather to the OS. This provides greater compatibility, since it is pretty much equal to actually clicking on the checkbox. I'm not sure why it takes 20 seconds for bluetooth to turn on. WHen you turn it on manually, is it instantaneous, or is it slow?

ssharpe

A bit more info
Turning bt on manualy takes 2 seconds before the icon changes and the blue led starts flashing.
I am not sure that ttloader is switching on bt as the blue led only starts flashing 5 seconds after the tt6 main page displays which makes me think that it is tt6 which is turning bt on
however when tt6 is exited ttloader does set the bt status back to its state when ttloader is launched
the 20 second delay occurs when bt is both on and off at the point of launching ttloader
my os is 2003se

nivanov

ah! I wrote it for WM5. Maybe 2003 has a different API call. Also, i really dont think TT6 ever turns bluetooth automatically on or off. If you really need BT to turn on and off for TT6 (if u have BT gps), I can try to see if it works differently under 2003. I can only use a device emulator since i dont have a real pocketpc running 2003. If you dont need BT in the first place, we'll leave it as it is.

ssharpe

I have a tt bluetooth receiver which has the sirf 3 chipset and works nicely. tt6 and tt5 both turn on bluetooth if it is switched off at launch on the 720 and 2003se. I wonder if tt havn't updated to the WM5 API call if it doesn't turn on on your device. Also when shutting tt6 down it return bt to the launch condition.

As such your app works fine for 2003se users as long as they delete the bt from the config file

nivanov

ok my best guess is that both TT6 and TTLoader are contending for the BT turning on. I send the API call to turn on BT first, but I'm pretty sure it's not blocking (it doesnt wait for it to actually complete). So then I start TomTom and there is a race condition of who is going to get to the BT device first.

TT6 definitely does not activate bluetooth automatically for WM5 on my Dell Axim. However, if it works for 2003, then i guess you can get it to work one way (TT6 under 2003) or the other (TT6 under WM5 with ttloader).

Thanks for the info, this should prove most helpful for all other 2003 users out there!

solara

TT6 turns on and off the BT receiver automatically on my x51v.

grun

Is there any chance of a version without the bluetooth toggle?

First of all, let me say that this seems to be the tool I'm looking for! Although the volume setting within TT 6 is already 100%, I still find it necessary to turn the radio off to hear the TT voice. I'm running TT on a smartphone, the HTC P3300, which has the GPS module built-in, therefore I don't need the bluetooth.

Thanks in advance, you have done a great job already.

nivanov

Please read the readme.txt carefully!! Just remove "bt" from the second line in the conf file, and you should be all set.

Originally Posted by grun

Is there any chance of a version without the bluetooth toggle? First of all, let me say that this seems to be the tool I'm looking for! Although the volume setting within TT 6 is already 100%, I still find it necessary to turn the radio off to hear the TT voice. I'm running TT on a smartphone, the HTC P3300, which has the GPS module built-in, therefore I don't need the bluetooth. Thanks in advance, you have done a great job already.

grun

Originally Posted by nivanov

Please read the readme.txt carefully!! Just remove "bt" from the second line in the conf file, and you should be all set.

Fair enough. I guess I was too hasty Thanks anyway.

seatone

Originally Posted by ebbe

Thanks a lot. Works great on a Fujitsu-Siemens Loox N560 too.

Hi ebbe,
just for my curiosity...why did you need this little app in case of an n560?
Although, I presume it must be a very handy and useful application for other devices
:)

dubignon

Hi,
First I want to say thanks for sharing a great app.

It appears that some have had problems with getting the bluetooth portion of the app to work with wm2003se and tt6. Has anyone been able to resolve the issue? I would absolutely love to have this function on my x50v. I currently must go through the process of configuring the BT gps (selecting the com port and everything) everytime that I start up TomTOm. Before I give it a try, I was wondering if anyone with the same setup has had success getting the BT to auto connect everytime that TomTom is run.

Thanks for any help!

nivanov

I have wm5 so i'm probably not going to be of much help to you. In wm5, once u paired up the devices, u dont need to set up COM ports. All my program does is enables Bluetooth. Its identical to going to settings->connections->bluetooth->on
If that doesnt get you to where you want, then this program will be of no help to you, sorry

In case you meant you need to set up tomtom to use certain COM port every time, I dont think that's the case. Tomtom saves all the settings for the GPS, com port, baud rate etc. In case of bluetooth, u need to wait for the gps to connect to your PDA, and then, after a few seconds, Tomtom will start acquiring a signal.

If you can be a little more specific, people around here will be able to help you more :)

dubignon

After some more trial and error with my axim and tt6, it appears that the pairing process between the bluetooth gps and the axim actually does happen automatically. As you suggested nivanov, I just had to wait for the two devices to communicate. I guess the problem was that I was turning on both the bluetooth gps and TT6 at about the same time and it was taking a while for the GPS to get a fix 1st and then communicate that to TT6.

THanks for the help :)

KevMull

Using it on a Fujitsu Loox 560 (built in gps, not BT)

Everytime I run via the ttloader.exe I can't get a GPS signal at all, but if i run TT6 via the normal icon the gps works fine but the usual v low vol.

Any ideas why?

Thanks