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Re: Scouting App Development

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Originally Posted by ExecutiveAssist View Post
Unfortunately, despite being in the same language, bluetooth communications between an Android Java app and a computer running a Java app are hard to establish.

Once networking works, the server and client apps seem fairly self evident, presuming you know what you want to collect
Can you just use a Bluetooth PAN profile for this, then implement everything using TCP/IP? I have little experience with Bluetooth, but I figure once you have a PAN set up, any of the server/client type programs should work no problem.

I just tried this out with a simple http server on a laptop and connected to my Galaxy S5 and it seemed to work just fine. I've read that the protocol is limit to 8 devices and 3Mbps, but that should be more than enough for simple scouting data.
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