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Re: Scouting App Development
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Originally Posted by nathanwalters View Post
My team investigated Bluetooth but we could never find a good way to make it work. Would you be able to post some of the basic ideas of your setup? I'm curious about how you went about this.
I'll have our software person doing the work respond if there's more to say but the idea is the tablets running a custom Android program periodically (maybe once every few minutes when they have something to share) try to connect to the sever in the stands via Bluetooth. That server may be a Raspberry Pi or maybe a laptop. If they succeed, they send up all the data they've collected. If not they wait a random amount of time and try again. Only one Bluetooth device can be linked at a time so they just keep trying until they connect.

This is still a work in progress so we'll see how it goes.
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