Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Tutorial: Remote Touch with Bluetooth.

[Update - Joshua Volp has given his steps for setting up bluetooth on Vista. It may or may not be different via Windows XP. Thanks Josh !]

Required Desktop/Laptop software: Windows Mobile Device Center:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/help/synchronize/device-center-download.mspx

1. Plug Bluetooth adapter device into available usb port. Desktop/Laptop operating system (ie. Windows Vista) will automatically detect and install required drivers/software.

2. Install software included/embedded within Bluetooth device if applicable to setup partnership with cellphone, and create a password to keep other Users from accessing your Desktop/Laptop/Cellphone data.

3. Setup Active Sync connection on cellphone by navigating to Settings menu and then to Connections tab on cellphone to setup Bluetooth partnership and enter newly created password. Once partnership is created cellphone saves User's Desktop/Laptop information for instant connection provided User turns on Bluetooth and phone is within range of Bluetooth adapter.

4. Run Active Sync, open Menu and click Connect via Bluetooth. Run Remote Touch, go to Setup and Connect.

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To my surprise it is possible to use Remote Touch to control your PC via Bluetooth ! I don't have Bluetooth support on my PC, so I can't give you anything more detailed or even a video.

Thanks to Nicholas for passing on this information to me.
If you find more steps not mentioned here, please let me know so I can add it here to help others.

+ In order to use Remote Touch with Bluetooth, use a simple Active Sync connection through Bluetooth .

+ First, create a partnership between the PDA and the computer. Detect/Search for the computer from the PDA . My understanding is once you have found your computer you don't need to do it again. Next time onwards, you just have to switch Bluetooth on in the PDA and the connection is established automatically (provided you are within range).

+ Check the Active Sync help for more info, but you have to set a port in the Bluetooth menu in the PDA and let Active Sync on the computer to connect through this port. Then you open Active Sync on the PDA and select connect via bluetooth.

+ Once the connection is established run Remote Touch & do the setup as you normally would.
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9 comments:

  1. Has anyone added a com port with the HTC Touch (Vogue) through sprint. I don't have that option, but would really like to have this program working through bluetooth rather than 3g. Thanks

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  2. Oo...this is interesting! So which IP and Port should we be using? The desktop's bluetooth device's?

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  3. I highly doubt that this is possible. My computer does not have an ip-address if I connect my WM-phone using Active Sync. COM-Port != IP-Port

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  4. @Anonymous:

    I really need to buy a bluetooth adaptor so I can write more decent steps. More than one person has got this going, so I think it's doable.

    As for ip-address, whenever I use a USB cable to connect and ActiveSync is enabled for my phone, the computer gets a special IP address (169.254.2.2 for me) which I can then use to connect. It may be the same thing when you connect over Bluetooth.

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  5. Tested today. I tried Bluetooth with ActiveSync. It works on my Omnia i900. My PC has IP x.x.x.x. The client software in Phone needs to have same IP and port as the PC. Very good software.

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  8. I have an Omnia i910 phone.
    I'm trying to connect via bluetooth to an XP PC.
    I get the pairing completed but when I try to set the COM ports on the computer COM3 and COM4 are available but on the phone COM2 and COM6 are available.

    Then I tried to connect to a different PC.
    I got the pairing completed but when I go to the COM ports on the phone there is no "New Outgoing Port" so I cannot select a port to use.

    Any help would be very much appreciated.

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  9. @Anonymous:

    I don't use bluetooth so I don't know the problem.
    A quick google search found a nice link:
    http://www.amset.info/pocketpc/sync-bluetooth.asp
    http://www.amset.info/windowsmobile/bluetooth1.asp
    http://www.amset.info/windowsmobile/bluetooth3.asp

    Hope this helps !

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