Hello all, I'm new to the forum amd the arduino board. I came up with a project idea after seeing that iPhone program that can control a car alarm. I have a system on my current vehicle, using RFID, that acts as a killswitch for my motorcycle. Doing some searching around the interwebs I found many sites on controlling the arduino using bluetooth from an android phone. The ones I have found only use the accelerometer and incoming phone calls etc to cause the board to react. I would like to use my phone to control the alarm and ignition system etc. Would I use those tutorials I mentioned earlier as a basis? I understand I willhave to learn to write code before I can tackle this project. I have plenty of time and any help is appreciated. Thank you.
Those are fine places to start. The basic idea is how to connect a bluetooth device and then how to transfer data back and forth. The data itself isn't important. I believe there is an example program that comes with Eclipse (Android Progrmaming Environment) that mirrors whatever you type on your android device through the arduino and back to the android. This is as simple as it gets and will show you how to get the basic functionality right. Then build from there.
There is a program called Bluetooth Chat on Eclipse, it is a simple (by their definition) program designed to have two Androids talk to each other. That is the same program I studied to get my college seminar project to work from a Galaxy tablet.
Yes, I did use Arduino for the robot and JY-MCU BT module, I did have a rough start though, but I finally got them to work together.
I did happen to find a bare basic SIMPLE bluetooth code and I still have if you want to take a look at it. Message me