Re: "open" bluetooth devices

Thanks everyone! All these suggestions are super helpful. 

As a community, please do share interesting things on the list as you find them. Don't go crazy, but please do share experiments or other interesting things you come across.

We should also start collecting these kinds of things in a wiki :) 

--  
Marcos Caceres


On August 21, 2014 at 9:10:56 PM, Sayanee Basu (sayanee@gmail.com) wrote:
> Yes Jeffrey, the TI sensor tag is pretty cool and I'm using it too. The
> wiki for the sensor tag is also very useful
> http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Bluetooth_SensorTag?INTC=SensorTag&HQS=sensortag-wiki  
> .
>  
> Thanks for the link on the Chromw app samples - hope to code some demos
> with the TI sensor tag + the chrome packaged apps ble api
> https://developer.chrome.com/apps/bluetoothLowEnergy
>  
>  
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Jeffrey Yasskin  
> wrote:
>  
> > I think we're using
> > http://www.ti.com/ww/en/wireless_connectivity/sensortag/ to write some
> > test apps. The apps at
> >
> > https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-app-samples/tree/master/bluetooth-samples  
> > don't include it though.
> >
> > Even an app that uses a proprietary protocol might be interesting to
> > poke at, though. GATT exposes a partially self-describing tree, so you
> > might be able to figure out what each part does, and then write an app
> > against that.
> >
> > Re Cary, I'm probably going to want to test with that sort of headset
> > a couple months from now. I'll ask when I'm closer to being able to
> > use it productively.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeffrey
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Marcos Caceres  
> > wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > during last week's call we decided that a few of us should buy some blue
> > tooth devices on which to prototype that API.
> > >
> > > I've been looking on Amazon for a few things, but I'm worried that the
> > devices will be tethered trough a proprietary protocol to an native app
> > (over bluetooth, of course). My question is, does anyone have any
> > recommendations for devices that I could purchase that will (more or less)
> > work for our experimentation?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Marcos Caceres
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>

Received on Friday, 22 August 2014 01:21:06 UTC