I’ve been sanctioned to the dungeon of developing in archaic languages for a time now, so my developmental approach my be a bit rusty, but I was hoping someone else may have ventured down this path, and can give me some advice as to whether I’m heading in the right direction.
I have a windows mobile 6.1 device that I would like to use to control a serial device. The serial device is simply a serial controlled relay switch (self powered) that opens and closes a relay based upon serial data. Of course, my mobile device has no serial port, nor does it have a usb host. However, I have seen Bluetooth to Serial adaptors for sale that sound promising. I’m not sure, however, if these devices are generally designed to be hosted by a PC (requiring some drivers to make it function), or if my dream to simply discover this device via Bluetooth on my windows mobile device and start poking serial data down the pipe is feasible. So although I’m going to have some thoughts to collect regarding serial communications (which seems to be relatively straight forward, at least in my mind), I’m wondering if the hardware aspect of this scenario makes a realistic assumption, or if I’m chasing a pipe dream here. (obviously this is not necessarily a question restricted to .Net Development, but I figured this group had the widest exposure to mobile interfacing of any group that I belong to). Any thoughts, suggestions, recommendations?
