Jim,
I used one of these adapters. It was one of the few bluetooth adapters that
provided RTS/CTS flow control. You are correct, you will need REX to load an
image or an adapter of some kind. Although the first testing I did was with a
RAM version of TS-DOS for the T200. I loaded the file with a cable then ran it
with the bluetooth adapter attached. It works, but I ran into three things that
kept me from moving forward with it. First, it's slower than using a wire.
Second, it requires a 5v power supply. I could have rigged up one from the BCR
port but I never did. Third, a short cable attached to my Android phone gives
me all the portability I need.
Kurt
On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 3:21 PM, Jim Anderson <[email protected]>
wrote:
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> @Jim: lots of cheap BT modules out there, both internal and external;
I haven't investigated the options yet - I was looking at someone's project
where he had connected a BlueSmirf module internally (to input pins of the
UART) and I was thinking about possibly making something like that which could
be moved from machine to machine, either by building it into an RS-232
connector shell and using some of the unused pins to route the signal
outside... is there some sort of standalone bluetooth serial module one can
just plug in to an RS-232 connector? What are people using? (and does it draw
power from the RS-232 port or does it require its own supply?)
> not sure why you'd need REX though to use BT with mComm?
Kurt has a few .BX files posted in his member upload space on Club100 for
TS-DOS and Sardine which have the TPDD access routines patched to incorporate
delays to help with accessing mComm over a BT connection. This led me to
understand that TPDD access over a BT connection isn't going to work too well
without those delays, and without a REX module how can I load up .BX option ROM
files?
jim
