With lots of help from Thomas I have updated my Millennium driver to support BluetoothLE connections in Arena, LucasChess and Shredder. This can be used in Windows 10 (from version 1703 onwards) but you might need to install a Visual C library. Details are in the ReadMe file included in the download:

https://goneill.co.nz/chess.php#millennium

I finally got a board to test with and found that the display of the LEDs on human moves wasn't very reliable so I have fixed that, as well as providing an option to say if the board has been rotated (used when setting up positions). And I changed the LED pattern for take back moves as I found using just one LED on each square wasn't easy to use.

Please let me know how you get on with the BLE connection as it's my first driver using this technology.

Thanks,
Graham

Sorry everyone, I made a last minute change that couldn't possibly affect anything and...it broke it!

I have fixed it and released version 3.0.1 now.

I know that

Or the opposite: how could that ever have worked

Lars

Hi Graham,

I have now tested your new BLE-connection in LucasChess, Shredder and Arena with all Millennium boards and can confirm that it worked straight away everywhere. This makes the connection to Windows even faster and more stable! Are there any further improvements (even faster connection) to be expected in the future?

Thank you! It's always useful to hear when it works for somebody and I really appreciate you testing it on everything, everywhere!

The next version, in the new year, will be aimed more towards the e-One board. The BLE connection will be most useful there as that board always runs off its battery so saving power will be important. This version of the driver does apparently work with that board but there are some extra commands I need to allow for so that setting up different starting positions will work properly there too.

Other improvements are normally prompted by people asking me to add things, as you are all far more imaginative than me!!

I have updated my driver (version 3.1 now). It now only loads the BLE library files if you actually select 'BluetoothLE' as the connection type. This means you don't need to install the Visual C++ library if you aren't going to be using the BLE option.

It has also been updated to allow the starting position to be specified for the eOne board for times when you don't want the game to start from the standard position.

Graham

Hi Graham!
Just a short feedback ...

My eOne finally works with my Win10 laptop via BTLe.
Thanks a lot for this. Just played some games with Shredder13 and apart from minor problems when mixing up things by letting Shredder suggest the best move, everything went smooth and reliable.

Do you know of a way to play on chess.com via Win10? I fiddled around with diverse setups, but never succeeded in getting this going. The only way right now is with my old Android tablet and the chess.com app. Unfortunately this seem to work only when playing against humans and not against the engines there.

Again, thanks for this wonderful driver!

Cheers,
Haro