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41Bluetooth ® InterfaceThe NorTronic ® can be connected to a PC, a phone, a tablet, or any other compatibleBluetooth ® device. For convenience, we offer a USB Bluetooth ® Adapter that ispreconfigured to detect and communicate with the NorTronic ® tools.When inserted, this USB adapter appears as a serial port instead of a Bluetooth ® device. This is to make iteasier for you to interface with it in software, and to prevent it interfering with any existing Bluetooth ®hardware and software that may be installed on the system.The USB Bluetooth® Adapter is controlled by a simple plaintext AT command system that lets you scan forand connect to tools. Please see the ASCII mode operators manual (34472) for more details.When connected, the Bluetooth ® icon will appear on the bottom left of the display.NOTE: Only NorTronic® tools fitted with Bluetooth ® functionality will work with the USBBluetooth ® Adapter; it is not designed to talk to other Bluetooth ® devices.The USB Bluetooth ® Adapter is not required to talk to a NorTronic ® via Bluetooth ® (forinstance, most modern Android and Apple phones will work without it), but in that case, inyour software you must configure your Bluetooth ® hardware to work with the NorTronic®Bluetooth ® Low Energy GATT profile.TDS does not support the USB Bluetooth ® Adapter or Bluetooth ® connectivity.NorTronic® Bluetooth ® functionality is for interfacing to 3 rd party software only.ASCII Mode Communication ProtocolBy using the ASCII Mode communication protocol, users can directly interface with the NorTronic ® usingtheir own software and equipment to control and configure the tool and receive data.This is an extremely powerful feature; it’s useful if you already have an application and wish to directlyintegrate data capture and control from the NorTronic ® . It’s also useful if you want to create a bespokesolution tailored for your requirements, and have the tool work with that.A great example would be integrating the NorTronic ® into a production line, where you want to automaticallycontrol the tool target and settings, and guide the operator through tightening all the bolts to the requiredspecifications while capturing the results.Another example would be if you want to gather readings in a remote environment far away from computers.You could use a phone to read the results from the NorTronic ® and send these via the Internet to a remotedestination without needing to find a computer to connect to the tool and download everything.The NorTronic ® ASCII interface is designed to be easy to understand and easy for programmers to supportin their software, and offers a huge range of commands that let you read and modify tool settings, read andset targets, stream live readings from the tool, and more. For more details please see the ASCII modeoperators manual (34472).