{"id":12943,"date":"2021-09-09T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/?p=12943"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:33:56","slug":"what-can-i-do-if-a-go-direct-sensors-bluetooth-led-flashes-red-and-green-when-i-try-to-connect-to-it-and-the-connection-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/12943","title":{"rendered":"What can I do if a Go Direct sensor&#8217;s Bluetooth LED flashes red and green when I try to connect to it and the connection fails?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a Go Direct sensor is already paired with a device using the device&#8217;s Bluetooth settings, attempting to connect the sensor using the Graphical Analysis app will fail. A symptom of this issue is a sensor that connects normally via USB, however, when attempting to connect via Bluetooth, the Bluetooth LED alternately flashes red and green and the connection attempt fails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To resolve the issue, go into the Bluetooth Settings of the host device (phone, tablet, computer, etc.), find the connected sensor and choose to &#8220;Forget&#8221; the connection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you continue to have trouble connecting your Go Direct sensor to your device, contact us.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-very-light-gray-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Note: <\/strong>the red and green flashing of the Bluetooth LED is also used as an indicator for triggering when the sensor is used for remote data logging. For more information, see <br \/><a href=\"\/til\/23343\/\">How do I start a remote data logging experiment on a triggering event?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To resolve the issue, go into the Bluetooth Settings app, find the connected sensor and choose to &#8220;Forget&#8221; the connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}