3 Bluetooth Low Energy Interface
Your reader can send each microchip ID number that it reads directly to a device with
Bluetooth low energy support, such as a tablet, smart phone or computer. The reader will
appear as a wireless keyboard to the device. No special software or driver is required on the
paired device, as long as it has hardware and operating system support for a Bluetooth low
energy wireless keyboard. The MiniTracker 3-B can be used with any software which can
accept keyboard input, such as a spreadsheet, text editor, web browser, etc. Before the
reader can talk to your device, you need to pair them to each other as described in section
3.4.
3.1 Change Cards
Your Wand Reader-B comes with two special cards which you use to configure its Bluetooth
low energy interface. You read them with your reader just like any RFID microchip to change
configuration settings. One is labeled
Mode Change Card
, and the other is labeled
Format
Change Card
:
Figure 3: Mode Change Card
Figure 4: Format Change Card
Keep the two change cards away from the reader's antenna during normal use, so that they
will not interfere with reading other microchips.
3.2 Mode Change Card
Each time you read the Mode Change Card with your Wand Reader-B, the reader will change
its current Bluetooth interface mode and then show which mode it has just changed to on the
display. The display will look like:
AVID
NNNNN
mode
where
NNNNN
is a unique identifier for your reader, and
mode
is the new Bluetooth interface
mode.
Avid Wand Reader-B User's Manual: 2017-07-14 Release
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