[TriLUG] BlueTooth dongle purchase

[Tim Jowers]

Hi,

  Does anyone have some development expertise with BT? Basically, there may
be a market opportunity for a BT fob which talks BT to the phone and NFC to
the external world. Two potential markets: automotive and POS. But need
someone with the hardware knowledge to marry BT to NFC. I can write code to
connect BT to iPhone and Android. (And that mythical open Linux phone which
haunts my dreams. :-) )
  Comparables: Paydiant, Device Fidelity, AC Delco.

Thanks,
Tim

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>  What would be the benefit of having bluetooth on a computer? What could
>> you do with it?
>>
>
> The real problem is that bluetooth is so badly supported in linux that
> no-one has found much to do with it. The only connectivity we have that
> isn't a physical wire, is wifi. Presumably much of the low bandwidth usb,
> serial or ethernet cabling we use, at least for personal/home type use,
> could be replaced by bluetooth. I don't think  it scales to large numbers
> of users/connections and I don't know how secure it is. I expect it's like
> ad-hoc wifi.
>
>
> Joe
>
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