Using a cell phone to activate the Boe_Bot with Eb500

TomTDS

Hi,

I have a basic Boe-Bot with an Eb500 board connected to it. Does anyone know if it is possible to program the Bs2 on the Boe-Bot's BOE so that the Boe-Bot servos will be activated should the Eb500 receive a signal from a standard cell phone? If so, could you please point me in the direction of some relevant source code.

Thanks in advance

Mike Green

The problem isn't so much about programming the BS2. It's about programming the cell phone to establish a bluetooth serial link with the EB500 and sending some information over that link that the BS2 can interpret. Programming the cell phone depends on what kind of phone you have and its capabilities and is way beyond the scope of this forum.

Bluetooth devices can establish a variety of types of connections. There's a protocol for sending files (OBEX). There's another protocol for sending audio. There's a protocol for a wireless network connection. There's a protocol (RFCOMM) that the EB500 speaks that establishes a full duplex serial connection, but that's the only protocol it knows. Typically cell phones implement an audio channel (HSP) and perhaps a dial up modem channel (DUN). A PDA phone like a Treo or Windows Mobile device might implement RFCOMM, but you'd have to write your own program or buy / download a program to do what you want. The Boe-Bot side would be very simple and would be a modification of the sample program(s) for the EB500.