I am going to have a project that can get data from devices that support Health Device Profile(HDP) in Windows.
I find Bluez but it is only available in Linux. Is there any alternative in Windows? Thank You
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I am going to have a project that can get data from devices that support Health Device Profile(HDP) in Windows.
I find Bluez but it is only available in Linux. Is there any alternative in Windows? Thank You
There are multiple suppliers of Bluetooth stack for desktop Windows. The only one that I know supports HDP directly is Toshiba (though I’ve no experience with it). So, instead once can add the HDP support outside of the stack software. However, HDP[1] uses the L2CAP protocol which is lower level that RFCOMM protocol that most apps use, and unfortunately Microsoft’s Bluetooth stack does not provide a user-level L2CAP API. I started work on a driver to allow user-mode access to the kernel-level API (provided by MSFT in Vista and later) but never finished it. For the other main stacks BlueSoleil doesn’t provide a L2CAP API, but Widcomm does.
[1] http://www.alanjmcf.me.uk/comms/bluetooth/Bluetooth%20Profiles%20and%2032feet.NET.html#_Toc266869895