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WiTilt V2 The WiTilt line of products are our first endeavor into wireless sensor arrays. And if you've read this far and you know what's going on, connecting to this thing is a breeze. All you need to do is follow the directions given either in the USB dongle section or the DIP section (depending on what you're connecting with), and once the connection is established hit the reset button on the WiTilt unit. You'll then see the config menu come up on your terminal program. For specifics on navigating the WiTilt config menu, please see its data sheet. Future hardware revisions will include smaller switches, Bluetooth^®Status LED's and an SMA connector for an external antenna. Somehow we might even manage to make it smaller. But it is currently our intention to continue to use the BlueRadios module so that connectivity procedure will not change. Firmware revisions are also on the horizon, but they also will have no effect on the connectivity procedure.
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	by kljh +1.4 \| October 17, 2008 at 11:49 PM 0
Thanks a lot for all those crystal clear explanations.

	by ShizzleHappens +1.9 \| April 15, 2009 at 7:06 AM 0
Very nice breakdown. I'm running BlueSoleil, which I like, and this cleared a couple of things up (particularly that I wasn't the only one it messes with). Have you tried CCleaner to get rid of XTNDConnect? That seems to work well on a lot of stubborn programs. Just be careful with it. It's powerful enough to blue screen you with one wrong box checked.

	by Georges41 +2 \| July 3, 2009 at 4:34 AM 0
I have a Blue SMiRF with 4 pins intended to be used for a remote communication between an Arduino Board and a PC. I am not able to communicate with Arduino. BlueSolei and Blue SMiRF indicate the establising of the connection but Arduino is not responding.

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| December 13, 2009 at 3:21 PM

Yeah... I got this dongle and the Bluesmirf. I have been more happy with the built in XP support of the BT donle than the BlueSoleil. I set my bluesmirf to master and BLuesoleil sees it, but will not actually allow any communication (will not connect). I tried to download the latest Bluesoleil software, but it is a limited version. The softeware that comes with it is not 'upgrade-able' to the current version. So, in summary, if you get it to work in XP natively, you may want to skip either Bluesoleil or other communications package. I was trying it to see if the software I was using would work any better with Bluesoleil compared to the built in XP drivers.

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