Re: One Bluetooth, two PDA's ?

On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 08:57:12 -0700, Dale DePriest
<Dale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> GPS User wrote:

>What did you expect GPSGate to do? It splits the serial port at the
>device, your pda or laptop, so that it can feed two programs. It cannot
>support two computers except via a Lan. The Bluetooth protocol hooks the
>GPS to only one computer at a time. The GPSgate on the other computer
>would never even see the device but if it had a wireless lan. You might
>be able to hook the PDA to the laptop via another program that would
>take the output of GPSGate on the laptop and retransmit it via a second
>Bluetooth serial connection between the laptop and the PDA. Perhaps you
>should contact the GPSGate folks. Since they have solved the wireless
>LAN problem perhaps they can also add Bluetooth support. (Actually a
>simple check of their web site indicates that they are working on
>Bluetooth support.)

Thanks for the reply, yes I was totally wrong thinking it could be
done with GPSGate Maybe the easiest way would be buying another GPS
:-).

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