Connecting to Bluetooth Serial Devices

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Hi there. I am a newer user of Tulip and am in the process of developing an application that captures torque values from a digital torque wrench. The wrench communicates via Serial Bluetooth. Just FYI I have very limited knowledge when it comes to this kind of topic.

I can connect the device via Bluetooth and use a program like PuTTY to confirm it is transmitting data. I just need to know how to connect this device with the Tulip player to be able to send data to the App and store into a variable. Is this something I would need and Edge IO device for? Is there another way to do this without an Edge device?

Thanks in advance for the help

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I haven’t tried this over bluetooth but we have connected various devices (Mountz EZTorQ torque analyzers, Zebra printers, TEEMI barcode scanners) over USB as serial-connected devices using the Serial (Player Only) device connections and these work quite reliably. If you search community for “serial” you will find some prior posts.

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Thanks for the recommendation.

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Here is the link that I was able to use for my solution: Using the Serial Driver