{"id":441,"date":"2007-05-23T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/441\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:16:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:16:17","slug":"441","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/441","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been doing some programming with Bluetooth on the PC. I was amazed that there are at least three different Bluetooth stacks under XP. They are Toshiba, Widcom and Microsoft. Of these Microsoft seems to be the one that I would use first, and Toshiba is the last. The API&#8217;s for these stacks seems to be poorly implemented. There are some stacks available. The best (because it is free) looks like the one from <a href=\"http:\/\/inthehand.com\/Default.aspx\">32feet.net<\/a>, but the important thing is that this only works with the microsoft stack.<\/p>\n<p>Of course my laptop only talks Bluetooth. So what to do? I picked up a <a href=\"http:\/\/store.pressdigital.com.au\/bluetooth-adapter-range-p-116.html\">USB Bluetooth Dongle<\/a> from PressDigital, and this uses the Microsoft Bluetooth Stack under XP SP2. This is exactly what I wanted. Now I can do the programming I need to do! And the thing just worked. None of this rubbish that I have had with the Toshiba or Widcom drivers not working. This one just worked. It is good when Microsoft does things properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been doing some programming with Bluetooth on the PC. I was amazed that there are at least three different Bluetooth stacks under XP. They are Toshiba, Widcom and Microsoft. Of these Microsoft seems to be the one that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/441\">  Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5cfmK-441","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}