{"id":4370,"date":"2019-03-15T16:42:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T23:42:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-05-13T10:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T17:25:51","slug":"4370","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/4370","title":{"rendered":"What Bluetooth radio do I need for Go Direct Sensors and Python?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The preferred method to connect your Go Direct device to Python is to use your device&#8217;s native Bluetooth\u00ae wireless technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you do not have Bluetooth on your device or if you simply wish to use another Bluetooth radio you will need a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silabs.com\/products\/wireless\/bluetooth\/bluetooth-low-energy-modules\/bled112-bluetooth-smart-dongle\">Bluegiga BLED112 Bluetooth\u00ae Low Energy Dongle<\/a>. This will require some specific modifications to the Go Direct library for Python. For additional information see <a href=\"https:\/\/vernierst.github.io\/godirect-examples\/python\/\">https:\/\/vernierst.github.io\/godirect-examples\/python\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Texas Instruments Calculator Support<\/strong><br \/>If you are using Python on a TI calculator, you need a <a href=\"\/product\/ti-bluetooth-adapter\/\">TI Bluetooth<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Adapter<\/a> (<nobr>TI-CALC-BTADPT<\/nobr>). <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"62\" class=\"wp-image-20370\" style=\"width: 75px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/image-14-e1715620836119.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related TILs<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/4307\/\">What coding environments can I use with Vernier sensors?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/14514\/\">Why do I get an error when connecting a Go Direct sensor to Python via Bluetooth?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The preferred method to connect your Go Direct device to Python is to use your device&#8217;s native Bluetooth\u00ae wireless technology. If you do not have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86433,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2122,6528,4803,7179,4919,7281],"class_list":["post-4370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bluetooth","tag-gdx","tag-go-direct","tag-python","tag-sdk","tag-software-development-kit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370","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\/86433"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}