Connecting multiple Bluetooth devices for scouting

[Dale]

Thanks for everyone's responses. In previous years we've used 3G connected iPad 1s but those connections have severe problems at some venues and especially and Championships where AT&T 3G was completely saturated. Typically we write these programs as web applications so Javascript and Node.

Our software team working on this doesn't have experience writing native Android applications. It's likely too late to learn this cycle. This year we'd like to continue running our competitive analysis system in a browser being served up by a web server, a local one this year.

notmattlythgoe makes an interesting point about using USB and polling for special files on each tablet from a "server". If we can't come up with a cleaner solution that would be a good fallback. Hopefully we can get our Ethernet adapters to work on 4.3.

I was hoping there was some Bluetooth magic that would allow these tablets to connect to a local network over that pipe. If anyone knows of such a thing, let us know!