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Kedarnath Calangutkar
Kedarnath Calangutkar

Reputation: 534

Serial Communication via Bluetooth on COM port

I was trying to create a Java program which communicates with a Bluetooth module (attached to SPARKI). I'm using JSSC for the serial communication. The Bluetooth module is connected to my Windows 7 x64 PC on COM8 port. The robot is also connected to my PC via usb on COM12 port.

The following code snippet reveals, as expected, that there are 2 ports available: COM8 and COM12 

String[] portNames = SerialPortList.getPortNames();

for (String port : portNames) {
    System.out.println(port);
}

But when I try to open COM8 using new SerialPort("COM8").openPort(); it throws SerialPortException: Port not found

Am I missing something? Any help would be appreciated.

Also, I found articles for similar problem on Linux. The solutions were asking to change the permissions on the serial port. I don't think its possible on Windows.

Note: I'm also willing to change my programming language to either Python or C/C++ if that works out.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2435

Answers (1)

Ruturaj
Ruturaj

Reputation: 630

As wenzul said try running it as admin, open an elevated command prompt (search cmd, right click, select run as admin).

Upvotes: 3

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