TTL Bluetooth Transceiver with Linux

I recently got one of these cheap chinese TTL to Bluetooth transceivers.

http://gb.suntekstore.com/wireless-bluetooth-transceiver-module-rs232-||-ttl.html

I got mine off ebay delivered for under US$7. The seller unfortunately didn't have a pinout diagram or any real info about the module (or maybe couldn't understand enough English to work out what I was asking).

I figured that all of them on the market are probably the same design so it shouldn't be a big deal.

Luckily I was right. The best resource I found was this:

http://www.egochina.net.cn/e-shop/ebay/datasheet/Bluetooth_Module_L6.rar

A number of diagrams, manuals and pieces of software in that archive.

The only problem is they are all windows specific.

The Ubuntu Bluetooth applet let me see and pair with the device, but no clue on how to use it.

Time to learn a little more about the Linux bluetooth stack.

hcitool scan
Scanning ...
 00:19:5D:24:B7:63 OBDII

Ok so we can see it from the command line and see it's address, it's the only thing found.

Most of the other diag tools didn't return any useful info.

Eventually I found the following to work.

sudo rfcomm bind /dev/rfcomm0 00:19:5D:24:B7:63

picocom -b 38400 /dev/rfcomm0

At that point I could talk to my MCU over bluetooth!

Brewbot in the final 10

The big news is that the Brewbot made the final 10 in the Renesas design competition.

http://www.renesasrulz.com/message/12324#12324

With the main work out of the way I've been playing with some other fun hacks for it.

Namely getting a python interpreter running in the RX62N with FreeRTOS:

http://www.renesasrulz.com/message/12347#12347