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Topic History of: Windows CE
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| Sam |
Thanks for the reply. Jungo is a driver development software company at:
http://www.jungo.co.uk/html/products/windriver/win_ceusb.htm
That site sums up the software and you can download a 30 day free trial of it. If you can get it to work with just a general driver I would be greatly appreciative. I am having all sorts of errors everytime I use it. I am waiting for responses back from their technical team for my errors. Like I said, I only need a driver that will transfer the data from the pic, which is only an integer that represents BPM( beats per minute).
Thanks again for the guidance and help. |
| dariog |
Sam wrote:
I didn't realize that HID drivers wouldn't work. I got a 30 day demo from jungo for the 18F model. Sadly things are not working out that well. I will keep you updated on if I can get it to work though.
Sam, can you show me what exactly is "Jungo"? I can give it try either, may be useful
Can you let me know roughly how your Bluetooth set up went? I have a USB coming off of the PIC board and I was thinking if it is easy just to get a RS232 compliant Bluetooth setup we could solve alot of problem. I wasn't sure if the
Well, my application was merely a file-transfer from a PDA to a mechanical machine. I used bluetooth to avoid cables.
No PIC involved in that case.
Bluetooth would convert it either. I don't know if that is clear but I basically want to take my USB output feed it into a bluetooth adapter then have a bluetooth adapter on my PDA and get the data with a need to build a driver. Is that how your setup went?
You can't connect a USB dongle to a PIC, as PIC can't act as a USB host.
So I guess you should search for a Bluetooth chip or miniboard with a RS232 interface to be connected to PIC USART (I saw them in Italy, some distributors do have them; if you can't find, let me know).
The PDA can have built-in Bluetooth, or you can add it via USB-dongles or also SD card.
This all will allow you to send datas from PICdevice to PDA. I only hope you don't need to use USB absolutely, since it would not be the case!
Post edited by: dariog, at: 2006/09/17 13:18 |
| Sam |
Wow thanks for the thorough response. I didn't realize that HID drivers wouldn't work. I got a 30 day demo from jungo for the 18F model. Sadly things are not working out that well. I will keep you updated on if I can get it to work though.
Can you let me know roughly how your Bluetooth set up went? I have a USB coming off of the PIC board and I was thinking if it is easy just to get a RS232 compliant Bluetooth setup we could solve alot of problem. I wasn't sure if the Bluetooth would convert it either. I don't know if that is clear but I basically want to take my USB output feed it into a bluetooth adapter then have a bluetooth adapter on my PDA and get the data with a need to build a driver. Is that how your setup went?
Thanks for all your help. I really appreciate it. |
| dariog |
Hi Sam,
well, we tried some 1.5 years ago after having purchased a couple of PDA-PocketPC, windows based (PocketPC 2005), with USB host capabilities and bluetooth.
Of course, no hope: there was no suitable driver (for 16C745 as HID) in the OS, and none was avilable on the internet. We discovered that, unlike Desktop-Windows, in CE you can't (2005) add HID drivers... so there was no way to have it working easily. We found some tools, rather expensive, which could have helped developing a suitable driver, but we didn't want to invest... and not sure about what could have been done with 16C745. Things may have changed with 18F series, but we had no time to go back to the PDA issue.
It's a pity, because MSVC fo Embedded worked pretty fine, with emulator on PC and creating executable files for PDA...
So, in my opinion, unless you're REALLY in the need to demonstrate USB on PDA... I'd go with another mean of transmission from your device to the PDA, probably a serial RS232 or rather a Bluetooth. The 18F4550 can be easily reprogrammed to become an interface for RS232 or Bluetooth (usually SPI or 232) , so your work won't be thrown away. We used Bluetooth-232 dongle to communicate from PDA to industrial machines and it was rather ok.
HTH, and if you find a way for USB... I'll be glad to cooperate! |
| Sam |
As a masters thesis project, a team of us developed a PIC18F4550 board that transmits heart rate data from a polar heart rate chip using usb based off of the project on this site. The board works perfectly (thanks!) with desktop computers, but we need it to transmit to a PDA. We have a PDA with USB host capabilities and just need to find a driver for Windows CE 5.0. Has anyone tried to port the project to a PDA or have any guidance as to where I can find a driver that will work? Microchip said they do not have a driver to support Windows CE. We are trying to avoid writing our own drivers because of a lack of experience. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. |
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