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Unread 18-12-2014, 14:39
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Originally Posted by wt200999 View Post
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.

Bluetooth PAN is the way that were working towards right now. One of our biggest challenges is that we won't have a common device to build an app for since we are relying on student/mentor provided tablets. So our solution will be server/client based. The server will be a raspberry Pi running a basic LAMP setup and then having the clients access using there native web browser.

I have the bluetooth PAN working pretty good on the Pi. Next step is to start developing the code and database.
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