How to receive serial data using android bluetooth
AndroidBluetoothAndroid Problem Overview
I am new to android. I am designing an android application that receives serial data from a hardware device through bluetooth. I am working on Htc desire S. I used the sample Bluetooth chat code to receive data. But the data received is incorrect. It misses some values. Can anyone please provide me any other sample code to receive large amount of data through bluetooth and save it in a file.
Android Solutions
Solution 1 - Android
try this code :
Activity:
package Android.Arduino.Bluetooth;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.bluetooth.BluetoothAdapter;
import android.bluetooth.BluetoothDevice;
import android.bluetooth.BluetoothSocket;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.Button;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.UUID;
public class MainActivity extends Activity
{
TextView myLabel;
EditText myTextbox;
BluetoothAdapter mBluetoothAdapter;
BluetoothSocket mmSocket;
BluetoothDevice mmDevice;
OutputStream mmOutputStream;
InputStream mmInputStream;
Thread workerThread;
byte[] readBuffer;
int readBufferPosition;
int counter;
volatile boolean stopWorker;
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Button openButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.open);
Button sendButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.send);
Button closeButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.close);
myLabel = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.label);
myTextbox = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.entry);
//Open Button
openButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
{
public void onClick(View v)
{
try
{
findBT();
openBT();
}
catch (IOException ex) { }
}
});
//Send Button
sendButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
{
public void onClick(View v)
{
try
{
sendData();
}
catch (IOException ex) { }
}
});
//Close button
closeButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
{
public void onClick(View v)
{
try
{
closeBT();
}
catch (IOException ex) { }
}
});
}
void findBT()
{
mBluetoothAdapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
if(mBluetoothAdapter == null)
{
myLabel.setText("No bluetooth adapter available");
}
if(!mBluetoothAdapter.isEnabled())
{
Intent enableBluetooth = new Intent(BluetoothAdapter.ACTION_REQUEST_ENABLE);
startActivityForResult(enableBluetooth, 0);
}
Set<BluetoothDevice> pairedDevices = mBluetoothAdapter.getBondedDevices();
if(pairedDevices.size() > 0)
{
for(BluetoothDevice device : pairedDevices)
{
if(device.getName().equals("MattsBlueTooth"))
{
mmDevice = device;
break;
}
}
}
myLabel.setText("Bluetooth Device Found");
}
void openBT() throws IOException
{
UUID uuid = UUID.fromString("00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB"); //Standard SerialPortService ID
mmSocket = mmDevice.createRfcommSocketToServiceRecord(uuid);
mmSocket.connect();
mmOutputStream = mmSocket.getOutputStream();
mmInputStream = mmSocket.getInputStream();
beginListenForData();
myLabel.setText("Bluetooth Opened");
}
void beginListenForData()
{
final Handler handler = new Handler();
final byte delimiter = 10; //This is the ASCII code for a newline character
stopWorker = false;
readBufferPosition = 0;
readBuffer = new byte[1024];
workerThread = new Thread(new Runnable()
{
public void run()
{
while(!Thread.currentThread().isInterrupted() && !stopWorker)
{
try
{
int bytesAvailable = mmInputStream.available();
if(bytesAvailable > 0)
{
byte[] packetBytes = new byte[bytesAvailable];
mmInputStream.read(packetBytes);
for(int i=0;i<bytesAvailable;i++)
{
byte b = packetBytes[i];
if(b == delimiter)
{
byte[] encodedBytes = new byte[readBufferPosition];
System.arraycopy(readBuffer, 0, encodedBytes, 0, encodedBytes.length);
final String data = new String(encodedBytes, "US-ASCII");
readBufferPosition = 0;
handler.post(new Runnable()
{
public void run()
{
myLabel.setText(data);
}
});
}
else
{
readBuffer[readBufferPosition++] = b;
}
}
}
}
catch (IOException ex)
{
stopWorker = true;
}
}
}
});
workerThread.start();
}
void sendData() throws IOException
{
String msg = myTextbox.getText().toString();
msg += "\n";
mmOutputStream.write(msg.getBytes());
myLabel.setText("Data Sent");
}
void closeBT() throws IOException
{
stopWorker = true;
mmOutputStream.close();
mmInputStream.close();
mmSocket.close();
myLabel.setText("Bluetooth Closed");
}
}
AND Here the layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
tools:ignore="TextFields,HardcodedText" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/label"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Type here:" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/entry"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/label"
android:background="@android:drawable/editbox_background" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/open"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_below="@id/entry"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dip"
android:text="Open" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/send"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignTop="@id/open"
android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/open"
android:text="Send" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/close"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignTop="@id/send"
android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/send"
android:text="Close" />
</RelativeLayout>
Here for Manifest: add to Application
// permission must be enabled complete
<manifest ....>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH" />
<application>
</application>
</manifest>
Solution 2 - Android
I tried this out for transmitting continuous data (float values converted to string) from my PC (MATLAB) to my phone. But, still my App misreads the delimiter '\n' and still data gets garbled. So, I took the character 'N' as the delimiter rather than '\n' (it could be any character that doesn't occur as part of your data) and I've achieved better transmission speed - I gave just 0.1 seconds delay between transmitting successive samples - with more than 99% data integrity at the receiver i.e. out of 2000 samples (float values) that I transmitted, only 10 were not decoded properly in my application.
My answer in short is: Choose a delimiter other than '\r' or '\n' as these create more problems for real-time data transmission when compared to other characters like the one I've used. If we work more, may be we can increase the transmission rate even more. I hope my answer helps someone!
Solution 3 - Android
The issue with the null connection is related to the findBT() function. you must change the device name from "MattsBlueTooth" to your device name as well as confirm the UUID for your service/device. Use something like BLEScanner app to confrim both on Android.
Solution 4 - Android
Take a look at incredible Bluetooth Serial class that has onResume() ability that helped me so much.
I hope this helps ;)