{"id":2160,"date":"2014-11-27T05:47:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T08:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2014-11-27T18:54:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T21:54:01","slug":"how-to-make-an-awesome-android-dashboard-for-your-embedded-widget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tangopardo.com.ar\/2cf7\/2014\/11\/27\/how-to-make-an-awesome-android-dashboard-for-your-embedded-widget","title":{"rendered":"How to make an awesome Android dashboard for your embedded widget"},"content":{"rendered":"

– Use a standard protocol. We chose Firmata<\/a>.<\/p>\n

– Play with nice things. We used Ionic<\/a>, Apache Cordoba<\/a> and the wonderful BluetoothSerial<\/a> plugin.<\/p>\n

– Remember to either modify the Firmata firmware to use the default 9600 bps speed of our HC06 adapter or change it to work at 57600.<\/p>\n

– Browserify<\/a> a Node implementation of the protocol<\/a> and make a port-like object so it talks over Bluetooth.<\/p>\n

– The bluetooth plugin doesn’t like to work with binary data so we improve it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After writing some glue code you end up with a nice and working control panel. I only got the working part but there are a ton of cool reusable widgets out there (like NexusUI<\/a> or KievII<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\t\t