Connecting my phone via Bluetooth

Randall Luebke

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Sep 15, 2026, 4:58:19 PMSep 15

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I was able to connect my laptop to my DigiPi via Bluetooth. However, my iPhone nor my Android phone are visible. Any ideas to connect them would be greatly appreciated.

Craig

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Sep 15, 2026, 5:06:19 PMSep 15

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Hi Randall,

I don't have Winlink Express here, but if it can connect to "network kiss tnc" the
Digipi parameters are

hostname: digipi.local
port: 8001

If you want to connect over bluetooth, look for "bluetooth serial port" in winlink
express, if it exists?

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Randy Luebke

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Sep 15, 2026, 5:10:01 PMSep 15

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There’s no BT serial port. There is a TCP port. Would that work?

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Scott Currie

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Sep 15, 2026, 5:19:47 PMSep 15

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BT is not going to work with Winlink Express easily. You can connect over TCP on the WiFi side. Set up the packet parameters to connect to the DigiPi as KISS over TCP to talk to Direwolf. In my example below, I'm pointing to the IP of the DigiPi (which you can get from the display if you have one), but digipi.local may work too depending on how your network is set up:

For phone applications, WoAD may find the DigiPi over BT, but that will not work on iPhone. In both cases, I would again use WiFi. Direwolf advertises itself on the network, and RadioMail finds it easily on iOS. I believe the same is true with WoAD, but haven't tested that.