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MotoTRBO bluetooth connection to PC or handheld

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Is there any way to connect a PC or even a mobile device to a MotoTRBO mobile radio using Bluetooth? Could a Windows Mobile / CE handheld connect with a USB cable? I would like to be able to transmit data from a Windows Mobile application through the MotoTRBO network. Is this possible? It would be nice to be able to connect via bluetooth as well. I am guessing that the handheld would also have to be able to act as a USB host.
 
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As far as I know there isn't a Bluetooth dongle for the MotoTRBO radios. The mobiles and portables do have USB connection to the PC (and yes you could use a portable or mobile). If you have the drivers and connect them, they appear in Windows Network Connections list. The drivers, as far as I know, are only for Windows XP and were just recently released for Windows 7.

If you can get that to work, then you would need a PC also connected with a mobile through USB, and it would act as a gateway to your standard IP network. In theory it's all IP so it should work, but no promises.

Hope that helps!
 
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First, the radios need to have BlueTooth.

Second, they need specific BlueTooth profiles to do what you want.
You got DUN (Dial Up Networking), LAP (LAN Access Profile), PAN (Personal Area Networking), and/or SPP (Serial Port Profile). These 4 BT profiles allow PC to connect and network through the mobile device.

As for the MotoTRBO network, I don't know enough about it to give you an answer.
 
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