On Apr 12, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Jonathan Duncan wrote:

> 
> On 12 Apr 2011, at 12:44, Kimball Larsen wrote:
> 
>> At work we develop devices that communicate over USB with custom software, 
>> and are considering replacing the USB link with a bluetooth one.   Thought 
>> I'd ask here if anyone has experience with such a transition, and could 
>> recommend a particular hardware path or approach?  We need something that is 
>> cross platform, and would prefer drop-in replacement for current USB, which 
>> is handled by an on-board FTDI chip.
>> 
> 
> I assume that you already understand that the transfer rate for Bluetooth is 
> much slower than USB.  This may not matter to your software, but should at 
> least be something you are aware of.
> 


Yup, we are aware of the speeds involved... we don't need high bandwidth at 
all.  We just toss a few bytes back and forth at a time.

- Kimball
http://www.kimballlarsen.com



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