bluetooth

[peter]

Have a Toshiba (bluetooth) with Fugawi Marine Navigation Software and am
buying a Garmin GPS 10 (bluetooth, just announced).

Now I need depth data for the software BUT no-one makes a bluetooth equipped
simple depth sounder. My marine software will handle shallow water alerts,
etc. if I can just get depth data into it.

What can I hook up to a depth sounder in order to send data to my laptop?
"Socket Communications" make a serial port bluetooth adapter if I can find a
simple depth sounder with an extra serial port output ???? Might work!

Many thanks guys from a very frustrated boater!

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[Dennis Pogson]

Have a Toshiba (bluetooth) with Fugawi Marine Navigation Software and
am buying a Garmin GPS 10 (bluetooth, just announced).

Now I need depth data for the software BUT no-one makes a bluetooth
equipped simple depth sounder. My marine software will handle
shallow water alerts, etc. if I can just get depth data into it.

What can I hook up to a depth sounder in order to send data to my
laptop? "Socket Communications" make a serial port bluetooth adapter
if I can find a simple depth sounder with an extra serial port output
???? Might work!

Many thanks guys from a very frustrated boater!

[email protected]

Sounds like a case for a wireless multiplexer.
http://www.mrmarine.com.au/usb-multiplexers.htm
Dennis
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[Jack Erbes]

With one or our Bluetooth enabled NMEA multiplexer, you can hook up four
instruments and get all data to your toshiba over bluetooth.
See www.shipmodul.com

Those multiplexers are nice units, they'll sure solve a lot of problems
with NMEA data sharing.

Do you know, if you had two serial to BT adapters (on two different NMEA
data sources for example) set up as slave units on a piconet with a BT
master (on the OP's Toshiba for example), will the BT master output both
of the NMEA inputs to same serial port?

I don't know much about BT piconets but if the master could take the
data from the slaves and sequence the outputs to the serial port used by
the application, it might work for the situation here too.

Jack