Sylvac Dial Gauge with Bluetooth

This program implements Control and Readout of a Sylvac Dial Gauge with Bluetooth interface.

It only works with a Sylvac S_Dial Work with Bluetooth interface together with a BLED112 Bluetooth USB Stick!

It does n o t work with the builtin bluetooth interface of a laptop.

it needs marabou with ROOT v6:

module load marabou/6

the user must be in group: dialout

sudo usermod -a -G dialout etpqaqc

the program espeak should be installed

sudo apt-get install espeak

Installation and execution:

Download the tarball plsurvey.tgz

tar -xzf plsurvey.tgz
cd plsurvey
make
./plsurvey.exe [device] [inaddr]

Defaults:
device = /dev/ttyACM0
inaddr = F8C4FF813D8C

For more info consult Help within the program

If connection to BLE device is stuck try:
  • remove dongle from PC
  • reset Bluetooth (bt) on Sylvac device
  • plugin dongle

Normally the device is: /dev/ttyACM0
Watch with command dmesg during plugin if this really shows up

Muenchen 21.9.2017
Otto.Schaile@lmu.de