# Connecting to Bluetooth Serial Devices

**URL:** <https://community.tulip.co/t/connecting-to-bluetooth-serial-devices/14462>\
**Category:** Support, Troubleshooting, & Help\
**Tags:** devices\
**Created:** [April 21, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/connecting-to-bluetooth-serial-devices/14462 "2025-04-21T14:18:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ThadBlack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@ThadBlack](https://community.tulip.co/u/ThadBlack)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 2:18pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/connecting-to-bluetooth-serial-devices/14462/1 "2025-04-21T14:18:06Z")

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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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**Author:** ![jmlowden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/jmlowden/32/8645_2.png) [@jmlowden](https://community.tulip.co/u/jmlowden)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/connecting-to-bluetooth-serial-devices/14462/2 "2025-04-22T14:42:50Z")

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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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**Author:** ![ThadBlack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@ThadBlack](https://community.tulip.co/u/ThadBlack)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/connecting-to-bluetooth-serial-devices/14462/3 "2025-04-22T14:56:03Z")

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Thanks for the recommendation.

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**Author:** ![ThadBlack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@ThadBlack](https://community.tulip.co/u/ThadBlack)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2025, 8:09pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/connecting-to-bluetooth-serial-devices/14462/4 "2025-05-06T20:09:24Z")

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Here is the link that I was able to use for my solution: [Using the Serial Driver](https://support.tulip.co/docs/using-the-serial-driver)