Is there any method add the Miracast protocol support to a Windows 10 portable device?
My portable (EliteBook 8560w) unit is Bluetooth and WiFi enabled, running Windows 10 Enterprise.
We have a few projectors that understand Miracast plus a dongle that brings the protocol to any standard HDMI TV.
miracast is supported on windows10， the name is widi。
you can win+K to open the miracast feature.
some low version of win10 is not support widi.
you can update you win10 function.
some low wifi driver is not support widi
you can update you wifi driver
Miracast protocol is implemented on windows 10 (software). That message says your hardware do not support Wifi-p2p which is the link between source and sink miracast uses. After that pairing miracast is simply a rtsp stream protocol.
Check this issue https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast/issues/103 to understand internals of miracast protocol
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I am trying to use Windows PC as a Central and connect it to BLE L2CAP CoC opened by Android smartphone using BluetoothAdapter#listenUsingL2capChannel(). From what I found after looking through MSDN documentation dedicated to the use of Bluetooth on Windows, I assumed I had to implement kernel-mode driver similar to Bluetooth Echo L2CAP Client Profile Driver. But it looks like BRBs for opening l2cap channel are not designed to support LE Credit Based Flow Control Mode (which I assume is the mode the channel opened by Android is configured in). And that leads to the conclusion that one can not use the transmission directly over BLE L2CAP channel on Windows.
What I expect in the answer is a confirmation or a contradiction to my conclusion and sharing the experience of setting up an interaction between Android and Windows using BLE. Is using the GATT the only option for this?
Have anyone managed to interface with BLE peripherals on Windows? Is there any library/API that can be used? Qt has now support for BLE in several platforms except Windows (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtbluetooth-index.html) and unfortunately I'm not aware of an alternative for it.
You can find the API released by Microsoft for BLE in this link:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh450825(v=vs.85).aspx
Be aware that the main drawback of using BLE for Windows 8.1 is that you have to establish a connection with your peripheral device manually in Bluetooth Options for Windows 8.1. You cannot implement a scanning functionality in your application.
How can I create an iBeacon on a windows 7 PC with Smart Bluetooth 4.0 integrated with the Wi-Fi, I.e not a separate dongle. I'd rather not look at other OS's as the device also has to run an Adobe air application at the same time.
Thanks
Mike
Sorry, but you cannot natively make a Bluetooth LE-equipped Windows 7/8/8.1 computer broadcast as an iBeacon. The operating system is limited in its BLE support to allowing third party apps to work with a limited number of BLE profiles. More details are available here in this question about Windows phone, but the info also applies to the desktop Windows OS:
iBeacon support for Windows Phone devices. Support is expected to be added in Windows 10 in late 2015.
Until then, your options are limited to a Linux VM or to a hardware dongle with native iBeacon support.
As David pointed out, there is no API available for working with iBeacons until Windows 10.
If you don't need any other Bluetooth connectivity, you can replace the Bluetooth driver with a libusb driver and use your own Bluetooth stack which adds support for iBeacon. You can check out open-source libraries like BlueZ and btstack and make the HCI layer work. On top of that you can implement/port the BLE advertisement and discovery HCI commands and you have all you need for working with iBeacons.
I am looking to implement the use of a Bluetooth 4.0 Smart Ready device (Polar H6/H7 Heart Rate Sensors) in my application. I am forced to target Windows 7 OS. However, I'm only seeing Windows 8 support for Smart Ready devices. I will not be able to upgrade clients to windows 8 in order to use these devices.
The first problem I found is that Windows 7 does not even see the device in order to pair with it. This might be the dongle I'm using. I have tried 2 different ones. The first is a CSR V4.0 (I'm not sure the actual model number). The second is StarTech USBBT1EDR4. Both seem to be using a CSR chipsets. Maybe I should try a different chipset based dongle? Such as Broadcom or TI?
I do see and can pair with the device with my Windows 8.1 Surface Pro.
Is there no way to get Bluetooth Smart implementation for Windows 7 OS platform?
I've recently faced the same problems! I need to run an application in o older version of windows (win xp) and I cannot find any support to that with my dongle (one based in broadcom bcm20702).
What I've found is that windows prior to windows 8, has no bluetooth low energy support, so you would not be able to use the windows bluetoth stack, and broadcom doesn't have a sdk for BLE (I've contacted them, and they said it).
So I've looked for other alternatives and BlueGiga bluetooth 4.0 dongle has a C SDK that you can use to develop your applications in Windows XP and 7. In that page (after register) you can find all the documentation you need.
I've also found a C# Wrapper and a Java Wrapper to its API.
Hope it can help.
[EDIT] : just received my dongle, tried it with win XP and it worked. Guess this is a solution for you also!
Strange thing is, I installed windows 10 and I could use bluetooth smart from my Logitech MX master mouse, but I had to go back to windows 7 because of display drivers and now it does not support it anymore. Windows 7 does not support smart bluetooth. It's just a driver I would presume, but Logitech does not provide it.
I find it realy strange that the old bluetooth device in my laptop worked fine with bluetooth smart devices in Windows 10 but in windows 7 it can only connect to plain old bluetooth devices.
I want to capture distances from sensors, using an Arduino and a Windows Phone device. How can I do that?
The Windows Phone 7 SDK does not give access to the USB port or Bluetooth on the phone, so you can't use that. So I think the best way (and probably only way on Windows Phone 7) would be to communcate over Internet or local network with the Arduino acting as a server which the Windows Phone 7 app connects too.
Here are some examples of an Arduino web server and TCP server.
For the Windows Phone client I would check out either WebClient or sockets.
Windows Phone 8 SDK:
Consider establishing an App to Device communication through Bluetooth API which became available for developers in the release. Bluetooth App to Device application sample, available on MSDN, is the way to go.
There is another option in Windows Phone 8, using Proximity (a set of classes which works with NFC), which is more applicable for a short range communication.
As for Arduino, there is certainly a Bluetooth module.
Windows Phone 7 SDK:
No way to establish a peer-to-peer communication with a third party device. A workaround would be to connect them through a network, as was proposed by Johan.
I have actually made a Windows Phone 8 App that connects to an Arduino using the Sparkfun Bluetooth Silver Modem. Issues is, even after I get them connected, I can't get either the Arduino to receive the input OR I can't get the WP8 App to successfully send to the Arduino...
My GitHub for the project is: https://github.com/lanceseidman/Arduino-Bluetooth-WinPhone8
Hoping everyone can try and help on the project.
My Breadboard photos will be up soon and my Arduino Code.