Additional Serial Ports for Bluetooth???

PDES · 01-25-06, 11:00 AM

Anyone know how to increase the number of available ports when setting up a BT connection? I have used 7 and 8 but I am not offered any more in the drop-down. I have port 7 for Activesync and port 8 for BT. Now I need to connect my phone but need to delete something first. I'ts driving me nuts!

Regards,

David

PDES · 01-26-06, 03:34 AM

Originally Posted by PDES

Anyone know how to increase the number of available ports when setting up a BT connection? I have used 7 and 8 but I am not offered any more in the drop-down. I have port 7 for Activesync and port 8 for BT. Now I need to connect my phone but need to delete something first. I'ts driving me nuts!

Regards,

David

Come on gurus, I really need your help. If I am being thick, please tell me!

Thanks,

David

The14given · 01-26-06, 04:08 AM

I'm sure there is some Registry-Hack, but I don't know where.

picopir8 · 01-26-06, 11:52 AM

Activesync does not require a com port on the axim side. I have BT activesync set up as well as my GPS (com 7) and com 8 appears as available.

Pocketbrain · 01-26-06, 01:30 PM

Well, I found a couple of BT references in my reg. editor:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Comm - BTCEPAN
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Comm - BTCEPAN1
I couldn't really find serial port references in the registry.
The BT setup shows unchageable inbound port 8, outbound port 7.

jdeleon0526 · 01-26-06, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by picopir8

Activesync does not require a com port on the axim side. I have BT activesync set up as well as my GPS (com 7) and com 8 appears as available.

Picopir8 is right. I also have a USB BT in my office desktop. I'm using it to Sync my outlook and transfer file to my AXIM using activesyc. You just need to pair the pc and check the ActiveSync Port. No need to map the incoming and outgoing port. It also automatically assign the port when you connect via bluetooth. Mine is com port 4 when a connection is stablished.

For my OCN5, it automatically turn on my BT and connect to it. Maybe they have their own BT manager. Dont need to pair my BT-339 GPS device.

For my GPS10, I need to paired and map my outgoing port to COM 7 or 8.

Regarding forregistry to add a com port, no idea!

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by the way, where r you going to use the additional port?

PDES · 01-27-06, 03:33 AM

This is not an active sync problem. I sync perfectly well with BT. The problem is that to add extra BT peripherals requires more ports but I can only see ports 7 and 8. I have seen others talk about port numbers up to 20. So the question is, how do I find/create more com ports to support more peripherals.

Regards

David

marco02 · 01-27-06, 05:44 AM

I associated my phone and it does not have me uses port COM....
Gpsgate allow programs has to use the same port COM for this i dont know try it..??

jdeleon0526 · 01-27-06, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by PDES

This is not an active sync problem. I sync perfectly well with BT. The problem is that to add extra BT peripherals requires more ports but I can only see ports 7 and 8. I have seen others talk about port numbers up to 20. So the question is, how do I find/create more com ports to support more peripherals.

Regards

David

Do you have the link for this? I'm also interested to know.

PDES · 01-31-06, 03:53 AM

Originally Posted by jdeleon0526

-edit
by the way, where r you going to use the additional port?

I have the PC using one port for Activesync and the other port is assigned to my remote GPS. I need to be able to connect my phone, BT headset etc so presume I will need to be able to assign separate ports to these services as you cannot assign the same port to different services.

Regards

David

Schlachter · 02-01-06, 10:09 AM

I'm pretty sure BT devices can only support 7 devices connected at once. I don't know why they have 8, maybe I'm wrong and the max is 8. I do know for a fact it is limited in how many you can connect at one time.

PDES · 02-01-06, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by Schlachter

I'm pretty sure BT devices can only support 7 devices connected at once. I don't know why they have 8, maybe I'm wrong and the max is 8. I do know for a fact it is limited in how many you can connect at one time.

It wouldn't be so bad if I could see ports 1 to 8. At least I would have a choice. I can only see 7 & 8, i.e. 2 max. I don't want or need to run many BT devices at once but once a devices is assigned a port, the port cannot be used for anything else. Perhaps someone could explain why the ports are needed, I am begining to think that not all peripherals need to have ports assigned. Could someone please explain?

Regards

David

mazo · 02-26-06, 08:29 PM

try this tool - when adding any new BT hw and pairing it it asks for you and creates a new com port

http://www.bonver.hu/www.igo.hu/download/bthtools.zip

works fine for me after install you need restart and upair all BT connections a build up newly - it will than ask for com ports - this tool resolves also GPS problems - although BT finds them - it does not assign them a com port to communicate or only outbound in WM5

theodorecarras · 02-27-06, 08:11 AM

There is a way to add more COM ports to Bluetooth - if that's what you're looking for.

Go to the registry and find HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Bluetooth\Ser ial\Ports.

It should show something like this: COM3 COM9

Just add any ports you want: ie for port 5 write COM5.

Hope this helps,

Theodore