Testing Native Bluetooth support on Windows platforms

Benjamin nystire at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 10:40:21 PDT 2015


Good evening Claudiu
I can't manage to get the bluetooth downloading working on my Petrel 2.
Trying with Windows 10 64 bit Home install.
Subsurface keeps on crashing when I press download.
I've installed the 32 bit runtimes which you linked to above.

Benjamin

On 12 August 2015 at 10:49, Claudiu Olteanu <
olteanu.vasilica.claudiu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Windows 10 puts a message on the right side of the screen: Add a device,
>> Tap to setup your OSTC3 (see win10-ostc3+bluetooth01.jpg).
>>
>> Then it fails with the message: Error, Unable to open 00: etc, No device
>> found (see win10-ostc3+bluetooth02.jpg).
>>
>
> That message is prompt when your devices are not paired. When your local
> BTH adapter tries to connect to the remote one it tries to automatically
> pair the devices (if they are unpaired). Therefore,  Windows asks for your
> permissions and puts that message box. I will write these details in the
> user manual.
>
>
>> Tried again this time I clicked the windows message that popped up and
>> paired the OSTC3 and it worked (as it always used to when paired).
>>
>> Unpaired and tried again and it failed again but this time the progress
>> bar reached 100% (see win10-ostc3+bluetooth03.jpg).
>>
>
> The progress bar status is not quite accurate when you press the retry
> button. Were your devices paired? Did your dive computer device entered in
> Download mode?
> As I said, when the Windows prompts for your permissions, you should allow
> it.
>
> Also there are moments when the connection method will raise a timeout and
> it will fail if the pairing step takes too long.
>
> Cheers,
> Claudiu
>
>
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