NXT to NXT

[mdsmitty]

I saw that beta 4 support brick to brick comms so figured i would mess around with it. below is a short version of the code. they seam to connect but i think im missing something when sending. I should get a 1 to appear on the recever brick but i don't what am i missing?

Also i noticed a beeping from the bricks when they are on now. the same sound you get when they are in upload mode. it seams to get louder when using bluetooth comms. is this normal?

Brick one (sender)
BTRemoteDevice btrd = Bluetooth.getKnownDevice("NXT");
BTConnection btc = Bluetooth.connect(btrd);
InputStream is = btc.openInputStream();
OutputStream os = btc.openOutputStream();
DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(is);
DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(os);
dos.write(15);
dos.flush();

Brick two(receiver)
BTConnection btc = Bluetooth.waitForConnection();
InputStream is = btc.openInputStream();
OutputStream os = btc.openOutputStream();
DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(is);
DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(os);
while(true){
LCD.clear();
LCD.drawInt(dis.available(), 4, 0, 0);
LCD.refresh();
Thread.sleep(100);
}

[lawrie]

Do you have a NXT named "NXT" in the known devices for you client machine? Look at Devices on the Bluetooth menu. If it is not there, do a Search and add it.

There is currently no error handling on the Bluetooth.connect() method, and it can appear to have connected when the connect has failed.

I think the sound is normal, but I am not sure what causes it. It is different and not as loud as firmware update mode.

[mdsmitty]

Lawrie,
Everything was working fine based on the DataInputStream and the InputStream class. DataInputStream gets the available method from extending inputstream which is mostly an abstract class. in inputStream the available method is not abstract and only returns 0. So I found my problem.

As far as the sound goes i turned on one of the bricks at work which has the Lego firmware on them and they click to so i imagine it is normal.

Thanks for your help.
Mike