Hi Janine, Although I cannot exactly help you with procedures, I can give you a background summary: What your computer reports about "serial port" is actually correct. You can think of Bluetooth as a wireless version of serial port connections. Now, with Vista, there are two ports needed, instead of one port that is assigned in XP: one incoming, and one outgoing. You can set up an incoming port, but it is hard to set up an outgoing port. If the connection was initiated by Braille sense, as in most cases, Vista Bluetooth stack will treat it as "incoming" port. If the computer was the one which initiated this connection, then it will be labeled as, as common sense goes, "outgoing." There's nothing wrong with hardware at this point nor reports with initial connection stage. Your computer and Braille Sense have found each other and BSQ (Braille Sense Plus QWERTY, known in Korea as BS QX) requested activeSync service, which does make sense. Also, there's nothibg wrong with your laptop, as BSQ is listed as one of the devices with a designated com port. My only concern is this: the incoming com port is active, but outgoing is not. It will require registry tweaks to fix this (sorry, but I don't have any info on doing that) or using an alternative bluetooth stack. Currently, I am researching how to overcome this issue (at least, I found several websites which reports that this issue cannot be fixed with Vista natively, thus requiring an alternative stack). I plan to conduct some trials with my own laptop with USB Bluetooth adapter (with Toshiba Bluetooth Stack) with another similar device to see what I can find. Another note is that there are many services that Bluetooth supports, among them audio, PIM (Personal Information Manager), Serial Port and so forth. When I think of Mobile device center 6.1, I usually associate it with PIM service. If I have to, I'll research this whole thread (both here and in Korean HIMS bulletins) while squeezing it with my school commitments. For those who were on another list would know what I am talking about, and the same thing is happening with BS family as with other devices. The solutions? Either "under the hood" modifications to BS's Bluetooth stack itself, or finding an alternative stack for Vista operating system which allows assigning a single Bluetooth com port for both i/o (input/output) channels. Hope this helps. Cheers, Joseph P.S. Come to think of it, how about Windows 7? -----Original Message----- From: Janine Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 3:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [GWN] activesync via bluetooth
Hi List. I recently purchased a BrailleSense Plus Qwerty and I am now trying to set up activesync via Bluetooth with my Sony laptop. The Laptop is running Windows Vista Business with Jaws version 10 as my screen reader. I have Windows Mobile Device Centre on the laptop. I have successfully synchronised the BrailleSense with the laptop via USB but am having problems when trying to set it up via Bluetooth. I have managed to pair the two devices and the laptop reports that the BrailleSense is connected when I access the Bluetooth information from the icon in the system tray. The BrailleSense tells me that the activesync service is connected and says "connection succeeded" or something like that. However the Windows Mobile Device Centre says the BrailleSense is not connected. The Windows Mobile Device Centre is set to allow a Bluetooth connection under connection settings. I did notice when the laptop gives details for the BrailleSense under the list of Bluetooth devices that it called it a computer and said something about the service class being a Bluetooth serial port and that the port was called Com40. I did not tell it that I wanted it to connect as a Bluetooth serial port and in fact the laptop never gave me a choice as to anything to do with serial ports and so on during the pairing of the two devices. I'm not sure whether this is relevant and I have no idea whether it can be changed or how I might change it if this is what is causing the problem. So to summarise both laptop and BrailleSense are telling me they are connected and the BrailleSense says that the connection to the Activesync service succeeded but the Windows Mobile Device centre tells me the BrailleSense is not connected and nothing happens. I know that it is not synchronising as a couple of new appointments which I entered on the BrailleSense do not show up on the computer. All other services on the BrailleSense are disconnected so there is no issue there. Any suggestions on how I can get this to work would be greatly appreciated. I'm probably doing something wrong but am not sure what. Kind Regards Janine Smith.
