how to set bluetooth serial port in computer for hotsync?

[tg50user]

Quest: To configure bluetooth serial port in computer to hotsync TG50 with Palm 4.1

Scenario: Laptop uses Microsoft BT Transceiver for Mouse. Laptop is added as trusted device in Clie and Clie added to Bluetooth device in laptop.

Question for PEG-TG50 users:

I read lots of message from other users to setup the bluetooth serial to the same as hotsync serial port.

Under Hotsync Setup - Local Serial - the only option I have is COM3.

How do you configure or add this Bluetooth serial port?

Thanks.

[d4rthsid]

tg50user, try a search next time.

Originally posted by d4rthsid
Okay one quicknote to all of you out there. Same thing that tantousha said
" To keep the costs down (each layer costs more to add) MS left out the networking layer in they keyboard/mouse thing. So in short it's Bluetooth, just not REAL bluetooth...typical of Microsoft, (ie. It's java, just not REAL java)."

True Bluetooth hsould be compatible with ALL other BT devices, although not all devices need ALL the profiles, for example: using a bluetooth mouse on a PDA would be unapplicable, however using a BT headset on a PC would be nice, the necessary profile does not exist, yet. Along those same lines the MS BT dongle does not support the serial profile...yet.


A snippet here:

The PC Becomes Bluetooth

Once the set is installed, the computer obviously becomes a Bluetooth communicator. So it can also be used to connect other Bluetooth devices, since this is a general standard. At least in theory. As we have already explained, Bluetooth includes myriad protocols which cannot necessarily be managed by any one device. Our Microsoft receiver can handle some transfer protocols, but not all. For instance, it can't manage the network function, so you can't put a laptop next to it to exchange files. Microsoft maintains that they are working on drivers and that updates will extend compatibility to include this feature in particular. We shall see. Of course, we ran a whole battery of compatibility tests on Bluetooth devices.

and a link to the part about the BT Keyboard: http://www6.tomshardware.com/consumer/20030328/bluetooth-05.html

and here's the thread:

http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13071&highlight=microsoft+bluetooth

[wilsonch_98]

I think i have read from one thread that the Microsoft BT mouse woun't support the serial BT trick.

Sorry for you. You better check those thread again before trusting my conclusion