Joels there is a very clear way to use Bluetooth classic on iOS. It is with the External Accessory framework (it also includes direct hardware connections in addition to Bluetooth classic however). You need to add the ExternalAccessory.framework and specify “App communicates with an accessory” in the required background modes inside your plist to get … Read more
With your Bluetooth dongle plugged in, running the following command will tell you the device name and give its state: $ hciconfig The output should look something like this: hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB BD Address: 00:01:02:aa:bb:cc ACL MTU: 1021:8 SCO MTU: 64:1 DOWN RX bytes:1000 acl:0 sco:0 events:47 errors:0 TX bytes:1072 acl:0 sco:0 commands:47 … Read more
The simulator does support Bluetooth Low Energy (4.0) according to this appnote from Apple. The only problem is that even if you have a computer with BLE inside, you will not be able to use the simulator together with it, because (I think) you occupy the availability on BLE for other devices to discover your … Read more
This guide looks promising for Bluetooth 3.0. Remember that the CoreBluetooth framework is ONLY for Bluetooth Low Energy (4.0). At bluetooth.com’s dev-pages you can see some examples of globally defined services, and as Guan Yang mentionen, you can see that the heart rate service is 0x180D. UUID`s of the unit is defined by the manufacturer. … Read more