Qt 5.10 bluetooth windows

davidesalvetti

Hi guys,

Does somebody know if it's possible to use bluetooth on windows using the mingw compiler with the next Qt 5.10?

I'm trying some examples using the Beta version but it's still not working.

thanks in advance.

mrjj

Hi
I think windows is still unsupported.
http://doc-snapshots.qt.io/qt5-5.10/qtbluetooth-index.html

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SGaist

Hi,

IIRC, there's a wip/win branch in the QtConnectivity module that you may want to try.

davidesalvetti

Hi @mrjj ,
thanks for your answer. I asked this question because I found this link: https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_5.10

As you can see:

Qt Connectivity
The UWP bluetooth and BLE backends can now be used on desktop Windows (>= 10) too.

So I'm really confused about it.

@SGaist thanks for your answer. How can I try this wip/win branch? Maybe can you suggest me some links?

mrjj

Hi
Oh, must be a case of Docs not updated yet. :)
Im am wondering if " but it's still not working." means it dont see any devices and hence might be
related to this:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-64486
but it seems to be related to Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
and the link you shown, says you can use the UWP classes on
in a normal Desktop Application.

I think you can get it from
http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtconnectivity.git/summary
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SGaist

Clone the repository and as @mrjj pointed, checkout the wip/win branch.

kuzulis

NOTE: The wip/win branch has implementation only for the BLE (only from Win8 and more), so, you can't use the classic BT yet.