Running Shimmer Capture on Linux (Ubuntu) Shimmer3

First build the shimmer capture application using visual studio

, copy the contents from the build to a directory in your Ubuntu operating system.

Open bluetooth manager and pair the Shimmer device

Connect to the Shimmer device Serial Port via Bluetooth Manager

Once connected take note of the device serial port

Run the Shimmer Capture application using Mono, in this example the following mono version is being used

The command is sudo mono ShimmerCapturexxx.exe. Once the application launches set the com port and press the connect button

Should you not have bluetooth manager the following command line tools can also help

sudo bluetoothctl
sudo killall rfcomm
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