Develop Bugs

Bluetooth Virtual Key Board (VKB)

Hi guys,
Was planning to buy one of iTech's new bluetooth, red laser, virtual keyboards, I see from a review @ Dave's Ipaq
http://davesipaq.com/articles/iPAQ_Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard_iTECH_2P/1.html
that there are problems bonding to certain Ipaqs, has anyone tried to bond one to an XDA IIi? They are £120 odd, available soon from Expansys,
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=118539,
but obviously already available elsewhere.

A friend of mine did buy one but complained about fingers hurting after tapping on the projected keyboard surface. The other problem is also to find a large flat surface for the projection, specially when on the move.

We reviewed one a while back and the conclusion was it was a great gadget but impractical, a decent bluetooth keyboard would be a much more practical solution.

Problem with VKB
Hi folks!,
I have this gadget and its very cool, but until now I can`t pair VKB with my PPC (HTC Apache with Widcomm BT Stack). Simply my PPC not "see" the VKB as Bluetooth device and the I-Tech`s Tech support don`t answer my questions. Someone can help me?
Thank you in advance

I have the CL800BT from Celluon which is apparently very similar but supposedly a few more advanced options. (more key shortcuts)
Im using it with a HTC P3600i on WM6.
In general, most of these devices were released in WM2003 period and drivers are built for them.
I have had very good success pairing and using the CL800BT, but am yet to work out the mouse function.

Dualshock 3

Can the DUALSHOCK 3 be used as an accessory to play emulated games on the Captivate. Such as the PSX emulator.
Thanks
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App

Well, first, it would seem that we would need a driver written for android for the controller. Looks like an outfit out of china made one for Windows Vista/7 to get the dualshock3 to work via bluetooth, which is what we'd use, of course.
Secondly, the psx emulator for android would need input-mapping, so the controls could be directed by the dualshock3. I don't know if the app does or not, but this sounds like a hella-awesome idea!
They have the BGP-100 bluetooth gamepad, and it costs about $25 for the hardware, and another $10 for the driver... (lame-sauce, for sure)
Now, I'm just getting into android development, and I bet android drivers couldn't be sufficiently coded using App Inventor! LOL But maybe someone else could look into it, for sure.
---EDIT---
Actually, just found this thread - forum (dot) xda-developers (dot) com/showthread.php?p=7132122
that linked to here - tomasz (dot) sterna (dot) tv/2010/02/play-games-on-nokia-n900-with-ps3-sixaxis-controller/
and tomasz states that it should be relatively straight forward to recompile for android. Looks like I'm gonna try and step up to the sdk. Woot!

Thanks for the info. What about using the controller with the SNES emulator. Would the same logic apply. Looks like the SNES emulator has support for external controllers.
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Toejamfloyd said:
Well, first, it would seem that we would need a driver written for android for the controller. Looks like an outfit out of china made one for Windows Vista/7 to get the dualshock3 to work via bluetooth, which is what we'd use, of course.
Secondly, the psx emulator for android would need input-mapping, so the controls could be directed by the dualshock3. I don't know if the app does or not, but this sounds like a hella-awesome idea!
They have the BGP-100 bluetooth gamepad, and it costs about $25 for the hardware, and another $10 for the driver... (lame-sauce, for sure)
Now, I'm just getting into android development, and I bet android drivers couldn't be sufficiently coded using App Inventor! LOL But maybe someone else could look into it, for sure.
---EDIT---
Actually, just found this thread - forum (dot) xda-developers (dot) com/showthread.php?p=7132122
that linked to here - tomasz (dot) sterna (dot) tv/2010/02/play-games-on-nokia-n900-with-ps3-sixaxis-controller/
and tomasz states that it should be relatively straight forward to recompile for android. Looks like I'm gonna try and step up to the sdk. Woot!
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If you or anybody else get this working, I'll be sending 10 bucks to your/their paypal account. However, you should probably be aware that Samsung has implemented their own proprietary bluetooth stack in place of BlueZ (or BluZ or whatever the vanilla BT is), and it's a bit wonky - this is why the Wii controllers won't work with the Galaxy S phones. Hopefully we can get around this or better yet replace the Samsung BT with the vanilla implementation and get rid of the weird-ness.
Good luck!

this would be GREAT as i don't have a Wiimote but four dualshock 3s!

So, after doing a little digging, here's what I've come up with.
After reading this thread over on the androidcommunity,
androidcommunity [dot] com/forums/f7/bluetooth-3-0-is-not-enabled-in-android-2-1-or-2-2-a-39462/
It looks like us Captivate users are stuck until Google integrates BT 3.0 into android. As of now, BlueZ has a kernel that supports BT 3.0, BlueZ 4.71, Google just hasn't moved towards implementing it.
I'm still going to look into getting this to work, but I'm gonna need alot of coffee.

Would be great. Let me know if u get it workin.
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So, now that Bluez is included in the Cognition 2.2 b6 ROM...that means we can use the bluetooth controller? I'm now digging this more and more.

bump^^^
I've been searching for an answer to this question. I hope we can get a way to use our dualshock 3 controllers on our Android That would be the last piece of the puzzle for true nostalgia and would help us touchscreen users out a lot.

MYO Gesture Armband - The Jedi Force !

So I recently discovered a cool new piece of hardware. Looked around XDA and couldn't find anything, so I thought I'd share. ( or maybe I couldn't find it just 'cause I'm a noob and didn't look properly - forgive me).
The tool is a called "MYO" developed by Thalmic Labs. It's basically a Jedi force bracelet . Apparently it can connect to a multitude of devices via bluetooth and controls it via gestures, i.e, changing slides in powerpoint. I think its pretty awesome and would love to get one, especially since they have released its API so you can also develop your own pc/android apps for it. Only problem is that I don't have $150 USD being a student .
If you guys want to check it out you can visit thalmic's site (I can't post the link 'cause I'm a new user. Just google "thalmic labs myo")
May the force be with you
(This being my first post I apologize if :
I posted this in the wrong category
Did anything I wasn't supposed to
)

neyirK said:
So I recently discovered a cool new piece of hardware. Looked around XDA and couldn't find anything, so I thought I'd share. ( or maybe I couldn't find it just 'cause I'm a noob and didn't look properly - forgive me).
The tool is a called "MYO" developed by Thalmic Labs. It's basically a Jedi force bracelet . Apparently it can connect to a multitude of devices via bluetooth and controls it via gestures, i.e, changing slides in powerpoint. I think its pretty awesome and would love to get one, especially since they have released its API so you can also develop your own pc/android apps for it. Only problem is that I don't have $150 USD being a student .
If you guys want to check it out you can visit thalmic's site (I can't post the link 'cause I'm a new user. Just google "thalmic labs myo")
May the force be with you
(This being my first post I apologize if :
I posted this in the wrong category
Did anything I wasn't supposed to
)
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Click to collapse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA
You're welcome
/OT
Lol on topic, here's the link for all you guys: https://www.thalmic.com/myo/. Seems like the device is still on pre-order, shipping 2014 with MSRP $159 in our geo. So perhaps it's advisable to wait till then.
Otherwise indeed looks like a fantastic device. Any ideas which apps will be available at launch?

Hey comunity,
As I finaly decided ton buy a Myo, I was ofc thinking about talk about it on xda. Let's dig a topic
I'm surprised by the way how few topics are opened about it here. I guess this techno is not enough known for the moment .
So here are my first impressions after wearing it for some hours :
Bought it on Amazon.com (because I was rejected by ThalmicLabs as "suspected of Fraude", what seems have already happend with french cards VISA).
Pros :
- The device is beautifull (Got the white one), great designed
- Confortable. I wear it for around half a day, and even if i still feel it, it doesnt "hurt" my arm or block blood circulation. Btw, as I work in suit, I can't totaly bend my arm (limited to ~95% of the movement)
- Even if it's 200% less accurate than a real mouse, it's a pleasure to stay in front of the screen, trying to controle mouse with your arm.
- A f*****g new way to interact with devices (As we are actualy limited to mouse & tactile)
Cons :
- Not enough movement recognition (only 5 gestures, with 1 aften used to unlock, so 4)
- Movement recognition is to much approximative to be used daily
- Muscle don't send the same "information" when your arm is leaning on the armrest of you chair. So you can't realy use it without to have stand your arm right in front of you (what is weird in office ^^)
- Some moves are not well thinked : Trying to close your fist (to make a " mouse click") when you are targeting the little red cross with your arm tight becomes a real challenge.
- It happend, REALLY OFTEN, that you unlock your device by mistake. Especialy when typing on a keyboard.
So I think the next big step for Thalmic and its community is to work a lot on the software to be more precise about movements. There is a beta of store, with a dev dedicated part, what let us hope about more and more app. But as Thalmic made a "all-in-one" tool to create app (called connectors for MYO), developers are limited to the what have been gave and THINK by Thalmic.
My impression is that Thalmic Labs had a very great idea of device, but are really bad to produce a good software to work with.
I.E. : You can't even change the time between last movement and auto-lock. It's fixed at 2 secondes and you'll have to deal with it.
I.E. 2 : You can't change the patern to unlock device.
So, to conclude, a very very BIG potential, but a lot of work to get it .

[Q] Possible to Screen Mirror *FROM* Fire TV as a Source?

Hi all, I see lots of articles and threads about how to Miracast from a phone/tablet or Desktop to a Fire TV, but I cant' seem to find any information about whether or how to cast using the Fire TV as a source. I suspect this is a function of Amazon's preferring you to just buy additional sticks, and at $40 per, it's not really a huge return on investment to put great efforts into. But here's what I'm looking to do...
I have a FireTV box feeding a primary display in my living room. I have a small TV in the kitchen I'd like to run the same image to. It's too far away to allow an HDMI splitter to get it done, so I did buy a second Fire TV unit, a stick for the secondary display. Ideally I'd like to be able to display the same ting on both screens so people can move between the kitchen and primary viewing area, and ultimately, even be able to move to the bedroom, and keep the same thing playing at all locations. So the living room FireTV box becomes a Miracast source and the one in the kitchen becomes the destination.
I know Miracast is supported Android to Android, but I can't seem to find any apps or options that would allow me to get the Fire TV going as a *SOURCE* for mirroring. As an android under the hood, it should be there, but I'm sure there are lots of reasons Amazon might not want us to do this.
Am I crazy for hoping to make this work? Am I barking up the wrong tree? Is there any other options for making something like this work?
thank you for any thoughts or suggestions!
Kind Regards,
pol

Hi, did you find a solution?
I have exactly the same problem.

Hi there, I'm sorry but I've not gotten any replies or found any solution for this. It's really surprising to me, though. I don't feel like I'm asking for something too crazy here but still I can't find anything, though I do keep looking. I'll gladly share here if I do, please let me know if you find anything yourself.
thanks!

TW64 cheap (less than $10!) watch/fitness tracker teardown

Heya,
Full teardown, lots of pics including test points;
http://imgur.com/a/vSnt6
Uses a Quintic (now NXP) QN9021 - which I know well. The QBlue SDK is freely available. As you see, test points on the board for SWD and UART, which is nice of them. Very very very cheap device - a bit crappy in some ways but eminently hackable.
Anyone looking for dev info should look at the online support/wiki for "FireBLE" which is the same chip on a breakout board - they have a bunch of info on how to program it.
I'm super duper busy right now with 'real' work but FYI this and the IWOWN I5+ which is slightly nicer hardware - I posted teardown pics of that in another thread (that uses a Nordic NRF51822 which is slightly superior to the QN9021) are very good cheap hackable BLE user interfaces. I recommend the I5+ as a starter project over the TW64 but it's a whole $10 more
IWOWN i5+ teardown: http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/accessories/iwown-i5-ble-bracelet-teardown-debug-t3388230
Cheers,
DrTune

Great to hear that!

@drtune any developments mate?