Getblue bluetooth reader, demo app for android description: Getblue provides automated data acquisition and manual device communication for bluetooth spp devices serial usb devices tcp ip http and camera barcode scanners.
Overview: getblue collects data from bluetooth spp serial usb tcp ip http and camera scanners automatically in the background.
The captured data is forwarded to adjustable target devices files online spreadsheets or even injected into 3rd party applications.
Bi directional device communication is supported manual communication functions for reading and writing data are available as well.
Details: the data acquisition app getblue can be operated like a cross switch: it captures data from an adjustable data source and forwards it to any supported target.
The following devices and protocols are currently available: bluetooth spp and bluetooth rfcommall serial bluetooth devices supporting the serial port profile (like spp or rfcomm barcode scanners) can be used.
Getblue supports bluetooth client and bluetooth server mode thus device as well as pc connections are possible.
Serial usb may not work on some androids.
Ftdi and prolific chipsets are supported.
Tcp ip socketany device providing a raw tcp ip socket.
Http http get and http post requests with adjustable parameters.
Camera scannersany external camera scanner app can be used.
Manual data inputdevice commands can be entered manuallycaptured data can be forwarded via bluetooth usb tcp ip and http to any target device.
In addition the collected data can be displayed (hex or ascii) stored locally in a file (including time stamps) uploaded to a google docs spreadsheet or injected into arbitrary apps on the smartphone via the getblue soft keyboard (keyboard wedge operation).
Application scenarios: getblue is used as keyboard wedge (scanning barcodes with a bluetooth scanner and injecting the bar code data into arbitrary apps) as automated data logger (e.
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Uploading captured data to a google docs spreadsheet or storing i