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Reputation: 5152

Health Device Profile in Windows

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

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1604

Answers (1)

alanjmcf
alanjmcf

Reputation: 3440

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

Upvotes: 2

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