win-bluetooth

A set of modern c++ classes for using bluetooth on windows. Based on the Qt Bluetooth interface. C++17.

Follows the Qt Bluetooth class interface

The intent is to create a bluetooth library using Qt and winsock to fill the capability gap in Qt 5.10. Class APIs by design will be similar/identical to their Qt counterparts, and a user familiar with QtBluetooth should be able to use win-bluetooth without (much of) a learning curve.

win-bluetooth uses the same class structure, just without the Q to start the class names. E.g. the equivalent for QBluetoothSocket would be BluetoothSocket.

Qt Bluetooth Documentation

How to run the tests

To tun the unit tests, you will need two windows PC's with bluetooth capability in range of each other. We'll call them the "server" PC and the "client" PC.

1. Start the client PC first with the following command line options:

   win-bluetooth-test.exe [LOCAL PC HOSTNAME] [LOCAL PC BLUETOOTH ADDRESS] [REMOTE PC HOSTNAME] [REMOTE PC BLUETOOTH ADDRESS] -c

   example:

   win-bluetooth-test.exe RELENTLESS 9C:B6:D0:DF:20:2C DAUNTLESS 5C:F3:70:84:BD:8F -c

2. Start the server PC next with the following command line options:

   win-bluetooth-test.exe [LOCAL PC HOSTNAME] [LOCAL PC BLUETOOTH ADDRESS] [REMOTE PC HOSTNAME] [REMOTE PC BLUETOOTH ADDRESS]

   example:

   win-bluetooth-test.exe DAUNTLESS 5C:F3:70:84:BD:8F RELENTLESS 9C:B6:D0:DF:20:2C

How to figure out your devices bluetooth address

On windows:

1. Open Device Mananger.
2. Find you remote devices name under the Bluetooth submenu and double-click it.
3. Select the Details tab.
4. Select Bluetooth device address from the Properties menu.
5. That's the address to use, just remember to insert a colon (:) between each set of two hex values.