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Tinine
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Posted: 05:08am 25 Feb 2019

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Just musing about the possibility of writing a terminal emulator for Android, to allow me to program MM. I thought that I'd be able to find all kinds of QuickBASIC source for this but can't find any.

Any ideas?

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Posted: 05:58am 25 Feb 2019

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If you are looking for a terminal emulator for Android, give Mocha Telnet a try.
I looked at a few others but keep going back to Mocha.

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Posted: 07:32am 25 Feb 2019

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Unless you want the intellecual exercise, you don't need to. There are a few about.I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.kai_morich.serial_usb_terminal

I find it really good, you can have macros (for your F keys) and it is just the right level of simple/complex I find. I use it to talk to all my MM via a 3.5mm jack plug. Supports all the common USB connectors out of the box (CH340, PL2303 etc...) and the author evidently keeps it up-to-date.

You will also need a USB OTG connector which allows your Android device to function as the bus master -by default it is a bus slave so it looks like a USB disk when you plug it in to your PC. With the Adapter you be able to plug USB disks, mice, keyboards into you Android device and it will work with them (depending on your Android device - not everything is supported by all)

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Tinine
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Posted: 08:08pm 25 Feb 2019

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Thanks guys, I shoulda mentioned that it needs to be Bluetooth. Yes, and there are lots of those available. Android devices are my MM-based-controller user interface and I just thought it would be neat to create an integrated terminal.

I use RFO-BASIC for Android, aka: BASIC! (with the exclamation). It is to Android what MM BASIC is to the microcontroller.

Connecting to a microcontroller, via Bluetooth is a breeze.

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Posted: 08:57pm 25 Feb 2019

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From the same author handles HC-05 & HC-06 natively

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Posted: 10:21pm 25 Feb 2019

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CaptainBoing said From the same author handles HC-05 & HC-06 natively

Already have it and sent him a donation before I even tested it. This would be acceptable BUT it would be cleaner if I didn't have to switch the BT link from my app to this one.

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