Bluetooth Shield for Arduino

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Introduction

The Bluetooth Shield integrates a Serial Bluetooth module. It can be easily used with Arduino for transparent wireless serial communication. You can choose two pins from Arduino D0 to D7 as Software Serial Ports to communicate with Bluetooth Shield (D0 and D1 is Hardware Serial Port). The shield also has two Grove connectors (one is Digital, the other is Analog) for you to install Grove modules.


Note: The Shield may not be compatible with some Bluetooth capable devices, like some HTC mobile phone (G7 with Android 2.33) and Apple devices with special profile on Bluetooth function.

Bluetooth shield.jpg

Features

  • Arduino compatible
  • Up to 10m communication distance for line-of-sight communication
  • UART interface (TTL) with programmable baud rate (SPP firmware installed)
  • Default Baud rate: 38400, Data bits: 8, Stop bit: 1, Parity: No parity
  • Default PINCODE:”0000”
  • A full set of configuration commands
  • On board PCB Antenna

Specification

Item Min Typical Max Unit
Voltage 2.8 3.3 3.5 VDC
Current 3 / 100 mA
Communication Distance(in house) / / 10 m
Protocol Bluetooth V2.0 with SPP firmware /
Interface Uart Serial Port(TTL) /
Supported Baudrate 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200, 230400, 460800 bps
Dimension 57.4x45.3x19.4 mm
Net Weight 10±2 g

Quick Test

Host-Slave mode: Communication between two different Bluetooth shields

  • Take one Bluetooth shield and do the following:
Select the Bluetooth shield communication port using jumpers: BT_RX is connected to D6 of Digital-6, BT_TX is connected to Digital-7. Move the mode selection switch to lower position so that Bluetooth module will enter into AT command mode.

Bluetoothshield host slave 1.jpg

Install Bluetooth shield on the Arduino Uno,and plung Arduino into PC, LED D1 on Bluetooth shield will start blinking.
Copy and paste the following sample code and download to Arduino:

<syntaxhighlight lang="c">

  1. include <SoftwareSerial.h>
  2. define RxD 7
  3. define TxD 6

SoftwareSerial BlueToothSerial(RxD,TxD); void setup() {

  Serial.begin(38400);     
  BlueToothSerial.begin(38400); 
  delay(500);

} void loop() {

   if(BlueToothSerial.available())
   {
     Serial.print(char(BlueToothSerial.read()));
   }
   if(Serial.available())
   {
     BlueToothSerial.print(char(Serial.read()));
   }	    

}

</syntaxhighlight>

Launch X-CTU, select the corresponding port, configure the baud rate to be 38500/0/8/N/1. LED-D1 on Bluetooth shield will turn on for about 1 second and turn off.

Bluetoothshield host slave 2.jpg

Send AT command through the UART to check MAC address of the Bluetooth shield ("AT+ADDR?\r\n"), and write down the results. In the following picture, we show that the MAC address is: 12:11:230317.

Bluetoothshield host slave 3.jpg