Bluetooth data stream

[Theopolis]

Currently new to LabView; I'm working on a project and I need some assistance. I want to use a bluetooth accelerometer to collect data and stream that data via bluetooth to my computer using LabView. I'm currently working on building an VI Bluetooth Application in LabView, however I'm kind of confused as to how should I create this application. Any suggestions? Thanks

[NIYiran]

Hi Theopolis,

We will need a bit more information before we can help you out with this issue. Which bluetooth accelerometer are you using for this application, and how would you normally interface with this bluetooth accelerometer? 

[Theopolis]

The bluetooth accelerometer is called GeneActiv Wireless. The accelerometer comes with a software application, but we're not sure if it will have all the capabilities we want. We were hoping to use the COM Ports to stream the bluetooth data. Hope to hear back from you soon. Thanks

[RTSLVU]

Does the  GeneActiv use SPP or it's own proprietary protocol?

The GeneActiv website says it's open source so you should be able to get all theinformation you need from GeneActiv.

[rolfk]

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@RTSLVU wrote:

Does the  GeneActiv use SPP or it's own proprietary protocol?

The GeneActiv website says it's open source so you should be able to get all theinformation you need from GeneActiv.

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Open Source Data Format, not Open Source software!! And it seems what they mean by this is that they do:

1) somehow document the binary file format created by their software application

2) recommend to export the data to CSV for easy post processing in other applications like Excel, Matlab, (and by implicit extension also LabVIEW).

[Theopolis]

GENEAir uses a serial port profile for wireless communications and it is supported by an open SDK in the .NET framework.