Cannot replace Widcomm bluetooth stack on HP laptop

[Martin Fierz]

Aloha!

One of our customers has a brand new HP laptop computer, and wanted to run our LabView executable to communicate with an instrument that we are selling. As far as I can see, he cannot replace the Widcomm bluetooth stack on the laptop with the microsoft stack - we tried all kinds of things, but to no avail. LabView for PC requires the MS BT stack, and will not work with the Widcomm BT stack (as a side note, I just learned that on PDAs it is the other way round, there LabView for PDA requires the Widcomm BT stack and will not work with the MS BT stack).

Are there any tricks left if this sort of thing happens? Is there a way to get LabView to use the widcomm stack?

And as another side note: our whole development is in serious trouble because of the incompatibility of LabView with either Widcomm or MS BT stack on PC/PDA - does anybody know if this kind of problem would also occur if I were to use e.g. Java or C#? Are these languages/compilers also limited to a single type of BT stack?

cheers

  Martin

[Marco_Brauner]

Hi,

see BT - Requirements here

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/B4C0FCC67BF4485486256F12005B6D61?OpenDocument


greetz

Marco B. NIG

[Martin Fierz]

Hi Hans,

your link just says what I already wrote in my post 😞 - the question is: is there anything that can be done about this? Is there anything that NI will do about this? What am I supposed to tell my customer with an HP notebook? "Sorry mate, HP notebooks are not supported by us"?

cheers

  Martin

[cat64]

I was able to correct a similar problem.  The procedure is posted here:

http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showtopic=33115