well knock me down with a feather it does work
the disc they hand out with these Bluetooth dongles should not be loaded as they will interfere with the process
I just went into the uninstall section of windows and uninstalled the entire thing (the Bluetooth disc with CSR hamony)
with a fatalistic feeling I then went looking for Bluetooth devices and the adafruit popped up straightaway, after linking I saw a good sign - it was connected, CSR harmony was blocking the adafruit module
I opened up the arduino programme and then found "blink", I modified the programme so that the arduino would give a short blink and a long pause.
I uploaded - another good sign - for the first time I saw the bluefruit module wink excitedly
then praise be bluefruit the LED linked to pin 13 had a short blink and a long pause - the arduino programme told me that the programme had uploaded
ps make sure you are using the right port to communicate on - I discovered it was COM 7 and it worked perfectly
so it really goes to show - there is an answer here
I've found the adafruit site more useful than the arduino site in general anyway
bluefruit problem
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- UNO
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Re: bluefruit problem
a Bluetooth dongle you might have bought is just pushed into the laptop - cold, without any discs; windows goes looking for its own solution and uploads it
the Bluetooth dongle seems to work just fine then
the Bluetooth dongle seems to work just fine then
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Re: bluefruit problem
Glad to hear it worked for you!
- UNO
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Re: bluefruit problem
so am I!
I have been playing with the bluefruit module
I've been able to talk to a 9V battery powered UNO via the bluefruit from a range to at least 20m (house wasn't long enough, laptop battery died ages ago - long story)
this is line of sight though, if you are trying to use Bluetooth through walls/ other rooms - forget it - you wouldn't expect it to.
next mission? soldering up the boarduino
the thing that got me in were the you tube instructionals about the Bluetooth/ boarduino - people need to see how it all fits together ideally a case of monkey see , monkey do - or it all gets very time consuming - so adafruit has that one worked out
I have been playing with the bluefruit module
I've been able to talk to a 9V battery powered UNO via the bluefruit from a range to at least 20m (house wasn't long enough, laptop battery died ages ago - long story)
this is line of sight though, if you are trying to use Bluetooth through walls/ other rooms - forget it - you wouldn't expect it to.
next mission? soldering up the boarduino
the thing that got me in were the you tube instructionals about the Bluetooth/ boarduino - people need to see how it all fits together ideally a case of monkey see , monkey do - or it all gets very time consuming - so adafruit has that one worked out
Please be positive and constructive with your questions and comments.