Windows version: Bluetooth API requires Windows 10

[ntrip6]

Installed on MS Surface 64bit running Windows 8.1 and app will not start.

Is it necessary to use a Bluetooth API that is Win10 only? Due to this requirement many useful field devices (older rugged devices) are excluded. QField otherwise has relatively low hardware requirements.

Version: using the latest version from
https://nightly.link/opengisch/QField/workflows/vcpkg/master/QField-dev-x64-windows-Release.zip

[m-kuhn]

Thanks for reporting this, for context and a workaround by deactivating Bluetooth, refer to GIS4WRF/gis4wrf#103

[ntrip6]

Thank you @m-kuhn. Given that many of the RTK GNSS units use Bluetooth connections disabling all BT would be a less preferred direction. Interestingly QGIS doesn't have this issue on this Win8 tablet so if QField cannot support bluetooth on pre-Windows 10 hardware I guess I would just run QGIS itself.

[m-kuhn]

If the topic is RTK GNSS, then indeed deactivating is not an option and this is something where development is needed for Windows.

[dani1967]

Thanks for reporting this, for context and a workaround by deactivating Bluetooth, refer to GIS4WRF/gis4wrf#103

The suggested solution

I've "solve" this on my PC:

Go to c:\Python37\Lib\site-packages\PyQt5\Qt\bin\ (or where your python installed in) and rename

Qt5Bluetooth.dll to Qt5Bluetooth.dll1

don't work for qfield., Qfield check Qt5Bluetooth.dll before start.

[nirvn]

@ntrip6 , I believe this should be fixed by now having moved to Qt6. Can you confirm?

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