About TriConnect
TriConnect is a freeware PalmOS program for communicating throughBluetooth, TCP/IP and Serial line. It can both establish outgoing and listen for incoming connections. The program uses the TriComm C++ library to provide the following features:
- Wireless communications over Bluetooth:
- Establish outgoing connections with other devices
- Listen for incoming connections
- Scan neighbourhood
- TCP/IP Internet communications:
- Establish outgoing connections
- Listen for incoming connections
- SSL (Secure Socket Layer) support (outgoing connections only)
- HTTP proxy support (method CONNECT)
- SOCKS proxy version 4 and 5 support
- Proxy authentification support for HTTP and SOCKS
- Serial port communications:
- Send and receive data over a serial cable.
For wireless communications, the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile is used. It's astandard profile operating via an RFCOMM socket, which allows it to connect toa wide set of devices, such as Bluetooth USB and RS232-to-Bluetooth dongles(Belkin, Psion, TDK, Billionton, BlueTake, etc), computers, mobile phones andPDAs (like other Palms, iPAQs, PocketPCs and so on). Nowdays support for SPP isa must-have feature for terminal applications, designed for different flavoursof modern equipment. TriConnect can also scan the neighbourhood and show a listof Bluetooth devices found nearby, including their names and types.TCP/IP utilizes the Palm's internal TCP stack to establish connectionsto remote hosts located anywhere in the Internet. If the Internet interface isnot up, it's brought up automatically before operations begin. Palms can easilyuse IR, Wi-fi, Bluetooth or direct connection to the PC in order to sign up onthe network. Not only direct communications are supported by the program: it isalso possible to specify a SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP (method CONNECT) proxy to beused. Using TriComm, the program connects andaccepts incoming TCP/IP connections on any port just with a few lines of code.The library does the rest, including the interface part, such as the nice"Waiting for connection" and "Connecting to" dialogs.Using a special Serial cable, your Palm can communicate with other devicesusing the old good COM port technology. This way you can control manypieces of equipment, which provide this kind of interface. Modems,sensors and telemetry devices are just a cable away!
