Basic Bluetooth Roles And Concepts; Bluetooth With Talkman A700/A700X Solution - Honeywell A700 Hardware Reference Manual

Basic Bluetooth Roles and Concepts

Pairing: Pairing is the process in which two devices enabled with Bluetooth wireless technology
create a secure link in order to share information. Each of the two devices is configured in a
different pairing mode. These modes are:
Acceptor – the device configured as an acceptor will accept a connection from the other
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device. It will not attempt to actively connect to any other device. It may require some
security information from the initiator device before accepting the connection.
Initiator – the device will actively search for (page) and connect to the other device (which
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must be discoverable and configured as an acceptor). If security settings have been
configured on the initiator device, it may need to present these settings to the acceptor to
complete the connection.
The pairing process begins when the initiator device broadcasts an inquiry to search for
discoverable Bluetooth addresses of acceptor devices.
MAC address: Bluetooth devices such as scanners are identified by a unique 12 hexadecimal
(base 16) address (i.e. composed of the numbers 0-9 and letters A-F, typically expressed in pairs
separated by "-" or ":" such as 08-00-2B-1F-3D-47 or 00:00:2F:E0:BC:7C). This address is
sometimes called the Bluetooth MAC address, or simply the MAC (Media Access Control)
address.
Talkman terminals have this address as a bar code on the label printed with "BT" for "Bluetooth."
Similarly most scanners will also have their Bluetooth address printed and/or expressed in bar
code on the device.

Bluetooth with Talkman A700/A700x Solution

VoiceConsole software is used to enable or disable the integral Bluetooth functionality on
A700/A700x devices. Options may be changed in VoiceConsole or in the Talkman device
profile. Whenever possible Honeywell recommends using options placed in the device profile.
The general checklist for enabling and using Bluetooth for the A700/A700x devices for scanning
and printing includes:
VoiceConsole Setting
Ensure the Enable Bluetooth box is checked
Enable the specific port function (scanning or
printing)
Set the specific port as an acceptor or initiator
Voice Device and Headset Hardware Reference Guide
Device Profile Setting
Bluetooth_IsEnabled=<true or false>
BarcodeBt_IsInitiator=<true or false> (for
scanner)
PrinterBt_IsInitiator=<true or false> (for
printer)
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