Integration: Pairing with Windows 10
Select Bluetooth Devices from the icon list in the lower right-hand portion of your desktop.
If your Bad Elf accessory is turned on, you should see something like Bad Elf GPS #12345 (with your unit's serial number) in the list.
Select your Bad Elf accessory from the list, and tap the Pair button.
Within 5-10 seconds, you should see a prompt on both the Windows device and the Bad Elf accessory LCD screen asking you to confirm a pairing PIN, which should match.
Press the bottom button on the Bad Elf accessory and confirm the pairing on the Windows device screen as well. Pairing must be confirmed on both devices to complete the pairing process.
Once this action is completed, the message “Ready to pair” will change to “Paired” as shown below.
At this point, you have successfully paired your Bad Elf accessory with your Windows device. Next, you will need to determine the COM port assigned by the operating system. To accomplish this:
Click on the icon to the left of the Bad Elf GPS #XXXXXXX
Click on “More Bluetooth Options”
A Bluetooth settings dialog will open
Click on the “COM Ports” tab
The COM port assigned by the Windows operating system for this Bad Elf accessory is COM8. You will use this COM port when attaching third-party software to the Bad Elf accessory.
A simple test of streaming NMEA can be achieved by downloading a serial terminal client like Putty (http://www.putty.org/). Once downloaded, run the application and select the serial connection type, enter the operating system assigned COM port (you may ignore the baud rate), then click “Open”. A successful result would show the NMEA data streaming in as indicated below.
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