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In the German documentation Lego calls the beacon mode "Signal Mode". I found this distance information on the Lego Education site describing the IR sensor in more detail: http://www.legoeducation.us/eng/product/ev3_infrared_sensor/2571 And there is again a difference between the wording i...

Somewhere deep in the Ev3 manual I found information that signal mode works only in a distance range of about 70 cm to 2 m.
In my first tests I was simply too close.

Howard, did you know this already?

My IR sensor is not usable in signal mode. But it is working well in the other modes. I have sent e-mail to customer service.

Solved.
Uninstalling the BT driver on my notebook and installing Microsoft BT stack helps.
So it seems that EV3 SW does not support BT stack other than Microsoft BT stack.

Hi, I am using the EV3 SW on my notebook with Windows XP. When pressing the refresh button for connection there is no result. When opening the BT environment from Windows XP menu then I am able to establish a serial connection to EV3 brick. But the EV3 SW is still unable to see the EV3 brick. I cros...