Nxt mindstorm bluetooth setup

The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 9 years ago. Active 1 year, 11 months ago. Viewed 4k times. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I have discovered the following so far: This is a known problem that Legos has not taken any action on.

The Macs with Broadcom Bluetooth chips supposedly will not work. However, the Cambridge Silicon chips supposedly will. You can check this out under the About Apple on your Mac more information button. My MacBook Pro has the Broadcom chip. Some people have had success pre Lion with bluetooth. The lack of success for some must still be related to the Broadcom chips which are in the newer Macs. Some have had success with using Windows with Parallels.

Usually they are using an external bluetooth dongle and there is some fiddling that needs to be done to override the internal bluetooth by using bluetooth explorer. It is not clear if using Windows through Parallels works with the internal broadcom chip.

Anyway, I got it to work to my satisfaction and I am off to learn how to make robots!! Improve this answer. Mark Forry Mark Forry 46 2 2 bronze badges. Although this isn't a very easy solution, it is one. Unfortunately that Lego has been so neglectful of their Mac-based customers.

Thanks for the detailed write-up. I found some of this information elsewhere also. We were able to get things working using a bootcamp installation on our iMac. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Related 5. Hot Network Questions. Get the "friendly" names of the Bluetooth devices available using the RemoteNames field from the output of instrhwinfo.

Construct a bluetooth object called bt as shown by the ObjectConstructorName in the previous step. It specifies that to get the device information, the command should have following format:. This translates the raw data packet to be: [2 0 1 ].

Write this data to the brick. The device then gives a response containing device information. The response has following format:. Let us now read only the name of the brick from its response. We know that bytes 6 to 20 correspond to the brick's name.

Let us now play a tone at frequency Hz for ms on the brick. Hence the command to be written to the brick is [6 0 0 3 5 3]. In addition to the audio tone played on the NXT brick, the device also gives a 5 byte response. Let us now read the response from the brick. The response has the following format:.