Description

If you develop Bluetooth® wireless technology enabled applications for Nokia Series 60 mobiles, BH4-X from CYBERABI is an easy-to-use Windows 2000 device driver that can help with your debugging.

BH4-X allows industry standard USB adapters enabled with Bluetooth wireless technology to emulate a Bluetooth adapter that uses the standard Bluetooth UART HCI (also called the H4 HCI, because it is described in Section H4 of the Bluetooth standard). Several Nokia developer kits, including the Symbian OS SDK for Series 60 Version 2.1 Beta, can use an H4 HCI Bluetooth adapter to debug Bluetooth applications on a PC host.

Advantages

• Works with industry standard USB adapters enabled with Bluetooth wireless technology.
  
• Adapter is readily available on the Internet and at retail shops.
• No need for a PCMCIA or Compact Flash interface on your development machine.
• No need for expensive Bluetooth hardware reference platforms.
• Driver implements plug-and-play and hot-swap functionality.

BH4-X installs as a Windows COM port, just as a Bluetooth PCMCIA card or hardware reference platform would. In our side-by-side tests, BH4-X was recognized by the Nokia Symbian OS SDK for Series 60 Version 2.1 Beta EPOC Emulator and performed correctly on Nokia's Bluetooth control panel, Notepad, Photo Album, BTP2P, BTAdvertiser, BTDiscovery, and BTOBEX applications.

Requirements

• USB adapter enabled with Bluetooth® wireless technology
  • CSR chipset preferred
  • Broadcom chipset not supported
• Windows® 2000 or Windows XP operating system
• 2.0 GHz or faster CPU
• Available USB port
• Nokia Symbian OS SDK for Series 60 Version 2.1 Beta
  • SDK for Series 60 Version 1.X and Version 2.0 not supported
  • Use our sister product, DTL-X, with Nokia Symbian OS SDK for Series 60 Version 1.x

Compatibility

BH4-X uses only industry standard Bluetooth HCI commands and should work with any USB adapter enabled with industry standard Bluetooth technology, regardless of chipset. Nonetheless there are exceptions.

We've verified BH4-X compatibility with the Belkin F8T003, the Amazing Technology BlueGear, and the Hawking Technology H-BT10U. All of these USB adapters use chipsets from Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR).

Adapters based on the Broadcom BCM2033 and similar chipsets are not compatible with BH4-X. These adapters don't support industry standard Bluetooth HCI commands until a proprietary Broadcom firmware loader runs at each power-up. BH4-X does not include a firmware loader, and so cannot be used with these adapters.

Incompatible adapters include:

• Allnet ALL1570
• Belkin F8T001
• D-Link DWB-120M
• D-Link DBT-120 (Rev A1/A2)
• freeControl
• GlobalLink
• IOGEAR GBU301 / GBU302
• Keyspan BT-2A
• PheeNet BT-222
• Tecom BT-3030
• W-Link WBT-3020
• WNi BlueLink

This list is not comprehensive. Check the specifications of your adapter to determine compatibility.

WARNING: Use BH4-X at your own risk! BH4-X is kernel-mode system software, and may cause your computer to stop responding under certain error conditions. BH4-X is not endorsed by the Bluetooth SIG, Nokia, Symbian, Microsoft, Cambridge Silicon Radio, Broadcom Corporation, Socket Communications, Amazing Technology, or Hawking Technology. All of the mentioned brand and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.