Stupid Q No 999: mergeBLE

[Mike Kerner]

Does anybody do pairing in software?  I have only ever had pairing happen
at the hardware level - in the settings or control panels

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Roger Eller via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Have you simply opened the sample mergBLE.livecode stack (buried in the
> LiveCode bundle) on a Mac, making sure that you have bluetooth enabled
> first?
>
> If your robot is broadcasting its information, the mergBLE stack should at
> least show you something like a name, among the names of other nearby
> bluetooth devices.
>
> ~Roger
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 4/24/17 3:54 pm, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote:
> >
> >> You may find this alternative documention of all the functions more
> >> helpful in this context:
> >> http://mergext.com/home/mergble/
> >>
> >> No, I don't.
> >
> > Let us just suppose, for the moment, that I want to use a button to PAIR
> > my robot with my computer (not, perhaps,
> > strikingly original), I would imagine (as per that almost completely
> > unhelpful video) a button script something like this (pseudoCode):
> >
> > on mouseUp
> >   scanForPeripheralsWithServices XXX
> >   put XXX into fld "gubbins"
> > end mouseUp
> >
> > but that "alternative" thing does NOT give any information as to how one
> > might achieve that.
> >
> > Then I might like to do this:
> >
> > on mouseUp
> >    send signal[lots of hex numbers] to robot
> > end mouseUp
> >
> > But its as clear as mud.
> >
> > Richmond.
> >
> >>
> >> On 23/04/2017 21:56, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
> >>
> >>> " All of the addons have full documentation making it a joy to use them
> >>> in
> >>> your app."
> >>>
> >>> Well I am unfortunately missing 2 things: "full" documentation
> (extremely
> >>> minimal in the LC Documentation stack),
> >>> and the "joy": te second as a consequence of the first.
> >>>
> >>> Richmond.
> >>>
> >>> On 4/23/17 10:59 pm, Roger Eller via use-livecode wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Have you looked at the mergBLE commands in the LC dictionary?
> >>>>
> >>>> mergBLEConnectPeripheral pUUID
> >>>>
> >>>> Monte will likely have the answers you seek.
> >>>>
> >>>> ~Roger
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
> >>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> So, here I am with Livecode 8.1.3 Indy (owing to the generosity of a
> >>>>> donor) which contains mergeBLE
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I also own a floor-robot (Blue-Bot), know its UUID and have
> >>>>> complete documentation of commands accepted by the robot.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> HOWEVER, I cannot for the life of me work out HOW one would do this
> >>>>> sort
> >>>>> of thing (pseudoCode):
> >>>>>
> >>>>> send "AA 03 81 11 04 67" to Bluebot
> >>>>>
> >>>>> so the robot would move FORWARD 1 unit.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Richmond.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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