Re: Selecting an external USB bluetooth adapter
Re: Selecting an external USB bluetooth adapter
- Subject: Re: Selecting an external USB bluetooth adapter
- From: Andy Bloch <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:19:38 -0800
Thanks. That will work to manually select the external adapter, but
it requires a system password so it's probably not a good way for an
application to switch automatically between devices. I'd like to do
it from my Objective-C code.
Ideally, I'd like to access the external adapter outside of the API so
the internal bluetooth can remain active. All I really care about is
opening a connection and getting the RSSI value.
Andy
Personal home page: www.andybloch.com
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Matthias Ringwald <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> try the "HCI Controller Selector" of the OS "Bluetooth Explorer" tool.
>
> Matthias
> On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Andy Bloch wrote:
>
>> How does one disable an internal bluetooth adapter and select an
>> external one instead? I have a bluetooth dongle that I want to use.
>> When I plug it in, OS-X sometimes switches to it, but sometimes
>> doesn't. I'd also like to be able to switch between the internal and
>> external adapter or multiple external adapters. (I want to be able to
>> use multiple adapters so I can use multiple directional bluetooth
>> adapters.) Primarily I'm interested in getting RSSI signal levels for
>> proximity detection.
>>
>> Ideally it would be nice if the OS-X bluetooth API supported multiple
>> Bluetooth adapters simultaneously, but according to what I've read in
>> the archives it doesn't. (Seems like a poor API design decision to
>> me.)
>>
>> Andy
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