Thread: .net Bluetooth Mobilephone Plugin

Originally Posted by mcfly

Smaller problems:
4. signal, battery aren't displayed (however centrafuse can display them, so the phone is ok)
5. my voice gets played back in the PC speakers, and never gets through to the other phone, through BT. -though I admit this could very well be a windows setting...

For 5, disable mic monitoring on your windows setting.

Also if you have a problem with audio not routing, try downloading the trial phone tool and make a call from there, it seems to impact the settings that the stack remembers for microphone.

It worked for me on 3 pc's.

Make sure you have it set up correctly first though....

Originally Posted by mcfly

Yes, I saw the typo too
For me the plugin works ok. I have a few problems though.
(windows7, latest riderunner, bs 6.4.249.0, sony-ericsson k800i)
1. Phonebook doesn't work, the contacts don't get transferred from the phone to the plugin. However, rightclicking my phone in Bluesoleil, I have the Contacts option, and it transfers my contacts from the phone. Furthermore, I can right-click a contact and successfully send a SMS all this from within Bluesoleil.
So it seems logical that if BS can do it, the plugin should too. I'm only interested in the contacts part, not the SMS.
2. Redial. The plugin redials the last dialed number, from the phone's record! -regardless of the number on the plugin's record.
3. I'd like to set up a "reset BT" button that turns Bluesoleil off, then on (same as right click BS tray icon, turn bluetooth off/on). Randomly, the COM port gets stuck connected after leaving RR, and the only way the Plugin can reconnect to the phone upon next start, is by restarting BS. What would be the command? If I'm not mistaken, it is used when going into standby, as the tray icon turns gray.

Smaller problems:
4. signal, battery aren't displayed (however centrafuse can display them, so the phone is ok) Sliders don't show at all, not even the default 5/5. (.INI slider folder set by default to ...\RideRunner\Skins)
5. my voice gets played back in the PC speakers, and never gets through to the other phone, through BT. -though I admit this could very well be a windows setting... solved by renaming the microphone to A-Microphone so it's now listed first.
6. Phone manufacturer displayed correctly- Sony Ericsson, but model is "AAD-3022031-BV" which is the type code, instead of K800i. LG KE970 shows up correctly, and Bluesoleil shows S-E K800i correctly too.
7. While more than one MAC can be added in the INI, only one COM port, but in Bluesoleil each phone has a different COM port.

1) There is currently no way to get the phone contacts from the phone. This is because BS has not (and probably will not) release this functionality in the SDK.
2) Redial is just a command thats sent to the phone. It doesn't work out what the last number was it just tells the phone to redial the last number it made.
3)There is functionality in the sdk that would allow this but I've kept away from all of that because its all automatic usually and adding it to the code just increases the setup complexity.

4)Are you saying you dont get any values returned or is some skin not showing values. I've teted the signal and battery on only two phone as thats all I have. A blackberry storm and a nokia. The nokia didn't support it but the blackberry did and it worked fine. Can you be a bit more specific about where you're seeing it not working and perhaps post your debug log files.
5)This is the big one I'm working on now. Its being a pig though. Hopefully I'll have something soon.
6)There is no translation done against this data at all by the plugin. It just displays what the phone sends. Maybe BS uses a translation table like it doe for the networks. I'll have a loo.
7)The idea behind the multiple mac addresses was not to allow multiple phones to be connected at the same time as BS cannot have more than one hands free connected. The idea was that if two people used the car but at different times it would work for both of them. If they where both in the car then the first mac address in the list would be connected too.

lambo, where is your donate button?

anyway I have a few points to add...

1) I second the findings on the phone model mine is HTC CGDXX Nexus

2) The indicators "flash" on and off, well, between say.. not available and the carrier when IBUS commands are issued via stw control. Im not sure if it's the skin, but i'll try some others and let you know.

3) The latest BS stack mentions something about echo / noise cancellation, have you seen that? Might be a fix for some.

Originally Posted by swordfishunter

3) The latest BS stack mentions something about echo / noise cancellation, have you seen that? Might be a fix for some.

Where in BS stack you have seen mention about echo / noise cancellation?!

Thanks for your reply!
Let me go on with two things:

Originally Posted by lambosprit

4)Are you saying you dont get any values returned or is some skin not showing values. I've teted the signal and battery on only two phone as thats all I have. A blackberry storm and a nokia. The nokia didn't support it but the blackberry did and it worked fine. Can you be a bit more specific about where you're seeing it not working and perhaps post your debug log files.

7)The idea behind the multiple mac addresses was not to allow multiple phones to be connected at the same time as BS cannot have more than one hands free connected. The idea was that if two people used the car but at different times it would work for both of them. If they where both in the car then the first mac address in the list would be connected too.

4) more on this tomorrow, I'll try to make some screenshots of your test skin and the Reborn skin.

7) I don't want two phones connected the same time, but at different times, just like you said.
But as far as I understand, it won't work, and in fact I've also tried it and it doesn't; because the two phones will have different COM ports assigned. So if my phone is on COM10, which is set in .INI; that will work. Later, my friend's phone having COM11 won't, unless I open .INI and replace COM10 with 11.
I haven't really found a way to force the same COM port number to two different BT devices, in Bluesoleil.
Or maybe I'm missing something, can I specify multiple COM ports in the INI, just like the multiple MACs?

http://www.google.com/m/url?cd=5&cli...VTj6CfgEBXOzPA

Page 20 says there is echo cancellation

http://www.google.com/m/url?cd=5&cli...VTj6CfgEBXOzPA

Originally Posted by mcfly

7) I don't want two phones connected the same time, but at different times, just like you said.
But as far as I understand, it won't work, and in fact I've also tried it and it doesn't; because the two phones will have different COM ports assigned. So if my phone is on COM10, which is set in .INI; that will work. Later, my friend's phone having COM11 won't, unless I open .INI and replace COM10 with 11.
I haven't really found a way to force the same COM port number to two different BT devices, in Bluesoleil.
Or maybe I'm missing something, can I specify multiple COM ports in the INI, just like the multiple MACs?

If you're talking about the mobilephone.ini then the com port bit isn't used if you're BS. Its for the ATSM stuff. The only thing you need to do is specify multiple mac addresses.

Originally Posted by swordfishunter

3) The latest BS stack mentions something about echo / noise cancellation, have you seen that? Might be a fix for some.

Quote for the sdk docs "This functionality disables the echo canceling
and noise reduction functions resident in the AG if these two functions are supported by the
phone A."

So its only there if you're phone supports it and it can only be turned off. Not sure why anyone would want to switch it off.