Bluetooth communication with bytran

Remote control and data retrieval in bytran 1.3 may be carried out over the classic Bluetooth connection using the Serial Port Profile (SPP) based on the RFCOMM protocol (serial port emulation) with a UUID: 00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb .  This functionality is available under all platforms with the exception of iOS and maybe Windows desktop operating systems older than Windows 10.   Please note that bytran may still be controlled from a device running iOS as long as the bytran program is executed on a device which does not run iOS (i.e. communicating from an iPhone with bytran running on an Android phone).   This restriction is caused by the fact that the Qt development environment used to develop bytran currently does not support classic Bluetooth connectivity under iOS.

To enable Bluetooth remote control bytran runs a classis Bluetooth server.  This functionality uses components from the Qt Bluetooth chat example with the service UUID modified to the one indicated above.   As such currently the connection with bytran may only be established from a remote device used to control bytran.   To test the bytran Bluetooth control functionality, Bluetooth serial terminal programs may be used.   Such programs are available under different operating sytems including Android and iOS.   It is important that the bluetooth teminal application to use for testing uses the Serial Port Protocol with the UUID mentioned above, otherwise it will not be able to connect to bytran.   One of the programs under Android which can communicate with bytran is called Serial Bluetooth Terminal and may be used to test bytran's bluetooth remote control functionality as follows:

1)   Install the Serial Bluetooth Terminal application onto the Android phone to be used to control bytran remotely (see Figure 1 below).
2)   Install bytran on another device (excluding devices running iOS) such as a cell phone or a computer.
3)   Pair the device running the Bluetooth Serial Terminal application with the device running bytran.
4)   In the bytran application, navigate to the second page of the menu, select the "Connect" option, and choose "Bluetooth" (see Figure 2 below).
5)   In the Bluetooth Serial Teminal application select the device running bytran as active device to connect to under the "Devices" menu.
6)   Click the connect icon at the top right of the Bluetooth Serial Terminal application.
7)   The bytran Bluetooth window will update to list the connected bluetooth device (see Figure 3 below).
8)   Send commands to bytran from the Bluetooth Serial Terminal application (see Figure 1 below) according to the bytran communication protocol to control bytran over bluetooth.