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Re: [ecs] a more general bluetooth question (clarification) Dario Greggio Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:45:15 +0200

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Mark Gilmore wrote:

> this is the goal and possible solutions that i envision:
> goal:
> to know when *any desired* BT device is within the area (for proximity 
> detection)

ok, than at the moment it could be about "any" kind of device.

> possible solutions (best to worst):
> 1) OS system calls (or a sys utility) could periodically discover all 
> active BT devices
> I'm looking into this now:
> http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/bluetooth/bluetooth/discovering_bluetooth_devices_and_services.asp


this looks fine, I didn't know about it.

> 2) Commercial utility pgm could do same as above (some cost to customer)
> 3) Adapter/software combo would do same (more cost to customer)

In this case I guess that "ipconfig /all" could be used to show network 
adapters (if you enable that service on your bluetooth) and parsing its 
output would provide info. Or even pinging the address.


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Ciao, Dario

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