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BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2012-05-03T15:56:42+01:00

Sorry have been sidetracked by my Nao work recently (well for the last 18 months) but have just started to get back with my old Bioloid kit (am building a hexapod). Anyhow, as Limor said the important first step is to make sure that your laptop and bluesmirf are paired and that your laptop sees it as a virtual com port. After that it should be pretty much as per the rest of the thread.

Carl (aka pev)

Statistics: Posted by Pev — Thu May 03, 2012 3:56 pm

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2012-04-25T11:35:44+01:00

MOHIT JINDAL wrote:
Hi Pev;
I purchased the BlueSmirf Gold and connected it to CM510. I tried to connect it with my DELL inspiron Laptop but only RED light blinks. Yellow light is OFF. I have to buy a Bluetooth Dongle ?

First just power the bluesmirf and see that it is discoverable on your laptop or mobile phone. then pair the laptop and create the virtual com port and follow stuff that was on this thread and others

Statistics: Posted by limor — Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:35 am

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2012-04-25T08:49:39+01:00

Hi Pev;
I purchased the BlueSmirf Gold and connected it to CM510. I tried to connect it with my DELL inspiron Laptop but only RED light blinks. Yellow light is OFF. I have to buy a Bluetooth Dongle ?

Statistics: Posted by MOHIT JINDAL — Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:49 am

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2008-07-22T08:28:04+01:00

trey3670 wrote:
pev
as per the tutorial at sparkfun the terminal is set at 9600,that is supposed to be the modules default baud

Trey,

Ok cool - but that is why BioBlue is not working. The Bioloid interface is locked to 57600 baud when using the Bluesmirf so bioblue sets the com port to 57600 baud when it connects. To get BioBlue to work you will have to set the Bluesmirf to 57600 as per the Sparkfun tutorial (on the old modules they gave an example of setting it to 57600 baud in the quick start guide pdf).

Pev

Statistics: Posted by Pev — Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:28 am

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2008-07-22T03:01:20+01:00

pev
as per the tutorial at sparkfun the terminal is set at 9600,that is supposed to be the modules default baud

Statistics: Posted by trey3670 — Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:01 am

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2008-07-21T08:14:23+01:00

Trey,

What baud rate is the module set to and what baud rate is the terminal session set to?

Pev

Statistics: Posted by Pev — Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:14 am

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2008-07-20T23:07:41+01:00

well to keep things up to date here is where I am at following the tutorial at sparkfun.
when I connect and type in +++ the cursor simply returns to the begining of the line and no response from module.
the red light on module lights up when power is applied and the green one stays solid when I connect with it.

this is using lynxterm

Statistics: Posted by trey3670 — Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:07 pm

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2008-07-20T19:45:24+01:00

cdraptor wrote:
Pev

Thanks for the info, I will check out stuff on your site. I figured you could use the bluesmirf like you would the Zig, but wanted to check. I'm looking to setup control from my PowerBook laptop - actually looking forward to programming some bluetooth routines. I may be dropping you a line on the forums for info. My main area of concern is the hardware side of things.

Any luck with a powerbook, bluetooth and the bioloid? I haven't seen this attempted elsewhere. I'd like to use my G4 in this way. Maybe with an interface something like this for the mac.

Macs have built in bluetooth and is pretty capable.

Statistics: Posted by Freeze — Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:45 pm

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2008-07-19T01:46:27+01:00

limor wrote:
srobot wrote:I was just thinking that maybe you wrote over the BCP file??

Try this one:

http://rapidshare.com/files/130039261/1 ... manoid.bpg

Please note that if you are not a Premium member of RapidShare you can only download files from there once per hour.

Limor - I can not upload *.bpg files to the RoboSavvy server, if you can fix that I will upload this file there.

upload script modified to allow upload of bpg files

Thanks Limor!

Can you also add *.mtn files to the upload script?

Statistics: Posted by srobot — Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:46 am

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2008-07-17T19:12:13+01:00

limor wrote:
Pev wrote:Finally try connecting to your Bluesmirf at 57600 baud from a terminal package like hyperterm and issuing the +++ command as detailed in the sparkfun docs - that puts it into config/setup mode and they list stuff like changing the name etc - if you can do that at 57600 baud you should be able to connect via BioBlue.

There is reference at the beginning of this thread as to how to configure the bluesmirf. However, SparkFun have upgraded the bluetooth chip from mitsumi to 2 other ones. See the command line documentation in the following two links: bluesmirf-sliver and the bluesmirf-gold.

Thanks Limor,

I had a feeling I was pretty out of date

Statistics: Posted by Pev — Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:12 pm

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2008-07-17T16:28:56+01:00

Pev wrote:
Finally try connecting to your Bluesmirf at 57600 baud from a terminal package like hyperterm and issuing the +++ command as detailed in the sparkfun docs - that puts it into config/setup mode and they list stuff like changing the name etc - if you can do that at 57600 baud you should be able to connect via BioBlue.

There is reference at the beginning of this thread as to how to configure the bluesmirf. However, SparkFun have upgraded the bluetooth chip from mitsumi to 2 other ones. See the command line documentation in the following two links: bluesmirf-sliver and the bluesmirf-gold.

Statistics: Posted by limor — Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:28 pm

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2008-07-16T21:02:08+01:00

srobot wrote:
I was just thinking that maybe you wrote over the BCP file??

Try this one:

http://rapidshare.com/files/130039261/1 ... manoid.bpg

Please note that if you are not a Premium member of RapidShare you can only download files from there once per hour.

Limor - I can not upload *.bpg files to the RoboSavvy server, if you can fix that I will upload this file there.

upload script modified to allow upload of bpg files

Statistics: Posted by limor — Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:02 pm

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2008-07-16T20:11:33+01:00

Trey,

Just went to Sparkfun and noticed that they don't seem to have the info I mentioned easily to hand - I have the PDF for the V1 Bluesmirf and will p, you with a link to it. Page 5 has the config info I was talking about.

Pev

Statistics: Posted by Pev — Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:11 pm

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2008-07-16T19:58:02+01:00

Trey,

Sorry I have not been around and sorry you are having problems. (Oh I wrote BioBlue btw) Work and life has intrupted my robotics.

Everything Scotty has suggested is correct and valid (thanks Scotty). However a couple of things you need to do to check it is set up right (sorry if these have already been suggested).

Firstly Scotty is right BioBlue is poor for debugging as the .Net serial connection that it reports is a connection to the Bluetooth com port on your laptop/pc not to the robot. Basically it doesn't check the comms to the bioloid until you initialise the connection when it should put your Bioloid into a standing pose - I am guessing this isn't happening.

BioBlue to date is just a squirt into the dark process where it sends commands but does not acknowledge them back to BioBlue (I really must re-write it it is getting really old).

OK things to check - the Bioloid can only communicate with the BlueSmirf at 57600 baud. Anything else and it fails - that is a Robotis set speed which I have never been able to get around using bluetooth (apparently you can get around it with ZIG). So first thing - is your Bluesmirf set to 57600 baud. By default they used to be sent out set at 9600 baud so you will need to agjust it. The adjustment can be done using hyperterm and is documented in the BlueSmirf guide on the SparkFun website.

Finally try connecting to your Bluesmirf at 57600 baud from a terminal package like hyperterm and issuing the +++ command as detailed in the sparkfun docs - that puts it into config/setup mode and they list stuff like changing the name etc - if you can do that at 57600 baud you should be able to connect via BioBlue.

Again sorry for the delay and please let me know how you get on - I will do whatever I can to help you get this sorted.

Pev

Statistics: Posted by Pev — Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:58 pm

BlueTooth Comms Hack For The Bioloid CM-5

2008-07-16T06:14:13+01:00

same result

Statistics: Posted by trey3670 — Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:14 am