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hybridgroup / artoo-sphero

Artoo adaptor for the Sphero robot.
http://artoo.io
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does this work with the starwars BB-8 model? #30

Closed diclophis closed 4 years ago

ZachBeta commented 9 years ago

I just purchased a BB-8 and am currently having trouble pairing my laptop with the device. The documentation is a bit sparse so I can't tell if it's the BB-8 being significantly different or if it's me misunderstanding the docs.

TLDR: I have no idea, but I want to know too.

ZachBeta commented 9 years ago

From what I can tell a vanilla sphero can be shaken to pair with bluetooth. The BB-8 does not go into pairing mode by shaking it as far as I can tell.

I do not see it listed as a bluetooth device on my MacBook Air, which makes it kind of a nonstarter. It seems to show up under bluetooth devices on my phone, but will not respond to a pairing request. It only pairs when in the app.

While it lists its MAC Address under its settings page, I cannot see it listed as discoverable, and cannot connect to an arbitrary address in OSX from what I can tell.

So far it has been impossible to pair from my laptop and thus impossible to set up with artoo-sphero.

YMMV, but I'm going to return it to get a vanilla sphero. I'm much more interested in programming a little sphere robot than I am with neat decals, a cute headpiece on top, and a heavily branded phone app.

I am dissapoint

d0nd3r3k commented 8 years ago

Check this out (https://www.npmjs.com/package/sphero) worked with my BB-8 unit!