Bricx Bluetooth Support

[monxc]

Hi,

  I'm trying to connect to an NXT 2.0 brick using Bricx (NXC) via Bluetooth - I want to upload code to the NXT without using a USB cable.

  The NXT is paired with my laptop and appears in the Bricx connection list under "find brick", but Bricx fails to connect.

  Can anybody suggest a solution, please?

Thanks.

[Tcm0]

There should be an option "search" or something like that. It should work

[djm]

On 9/30/2019 at 9:52 AM, monxc said:

Hi,

  I'm trying to connect to an NXT 2.0 brick using Bricx (NXC) via Bluetooth - I want to upload code to the NXT without using a USB cable.

  The NXT is paired with my laptop and appears in the Bricx connection list under "find brick", but Bricx fails to connect.

  Can anybody suggest a solution, please?

Thanks.

Your mileage may vary. On my Windows 10 machine, I fired up Bricx to see if I could connect to an NXT via Bluetooth. My NXT is named djm01. Using the menu item "Tools/Find Brick" menu item, opened up a dialog window. Within that window, I expanded the "Port" drop-down list. In that list there were two entries with respect to my NXT;

• one labelled BTH:DJM01
• one labelled BTH:DJM01:<then a hex code>

I successfully connected to the NXT with Bricx using the entry with the hex code.

Although the actual hex code value isn't especially important, it corresponds to the value in the "Association Endpoint address" (visible using Device Manager and looking within the "Details" tab of the properties for the device).

So my suggestion would be to take a second look at the list of ports and see if there is another entry which includes a hex code and try that one.

Regards,

David

[Toastie]

Hi @monxc

I can only confirm what @djm has suggested; just tried it out. After pairing in Win10 (search for new devices etc.) the NXT shows up in the bluetooth section of device manager >and< there should be a bluetooth over serial entry in the COM & LPT section.

You may want to make sure that the "bluetooth over serial" protocol port in the COM & LPT section is installed on COM ports < 9, i.e. 1 ... 8. BRICXCC is from the olden days and on my machine it does not find any device running on COM ports > 8 (RCX, SCOUTs ...)

Good luck!

Best
Thorsten