After nearly 3 full days trying to get bluetooth connectivity I am ready to throw in the towel.
I got as far as having wireless communication but its very inconsistent. One minute it works then for the next five hours I cant get it to connect again.
Problem might be windows 8 compatability because Ive tried it on two win8 64bit pcs and no luck on either.
What I need is to have an arduino collect sensor data and then send it wirelesly to a pc 3 feet away.
Since the bluetooth approach seems to be failing is there a better way???
I just need it to work every time no matter which pc is receiving the data.
I thought of maybe using xbee or a bluetooth modem to bluetooth modem setup where the pc end is not a bluetooth dongle but rather a bluetooth modem on a uart to usb interface????
It is short distance and a baud of 9600 would probably be enough... its the reliability that is killing me...
Hope some one has a good suggestion for this.
I didnt mention but I am trying to keep it as small as possible.
A bluetooth modem is acceptable in size, xbee...just barely but already getting too big for the enclosure.