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Hi Graham @GONeill,
is this a confirmed information from Chessnut, that the Evo supports Bluetooth? I haven't been able to find any reference to this anywhere, neither in the official specs nor in the answers to related questions in the Facebook group or in the Kickstarter forum. Only Wifi support is specified there.
Greets
Dieter
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Hallo Graham,
sind das gesicherte Infos von Chessnut, dass der Evo auch Bluetooth unterstützt? Ich konnte bisher nirgends einen Hinweis dafür finden, weder in den offiziellen Spezifikationen noch in den Antworten auf entsprechende Fragen in der Facebook-Gruppe oder im Kickstarter-Forum. Nur eine Wifi-Unterstützung wird dort angegeben.
Hi Dieter, you are correct that they haven't listed it in their specifications but that is the information Chessnut have given me.
For technical reasons they can't provide a USB HID interface (maybe because their screen already uses HID internally to talk to the board) but they will provide a Bluetooth connection and, "maybe in the future" a socket connection for local wifi. (This is for programs to access the device using wifi rather than the device linking into your wifi for internet access, which already exists). They have also told me the protocol will be the same as the Air/Pro except for the control of the LED colours, so that will be BLE rather than classic BT.
Although they don't list BLE, they do list my driver as being compatible and since my driver only runs on Windows and Linux that means there will have to be an interface to a PC.
But the last stretch goal on their Kickstarter is "ChessBase integration". I'm hoping that means ChessBase for Android rather than the work they will need to do to open up BLE for my driver to use ChessBase on a PC. I'm pretty sure it does....
Regards, Graham