Re: Bluetooth iOS?
Re: Bluetooth iOS?
- Subject: Re: Bluetooth iOS?
- From: Chip Wachob <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:29:47 -0400
That is encouraging! Thanks!
I'm new to BT, and new to Apple, so please forgive any flubs below.
I am working on a project that is going to look like a BT keyboard to
iOS devices.
I have been trying to accomplish this using a program called HIDClient
which can be found here:
https://anselm.hoffmeister.be/computer/hidclient/index.html.en
I'm developing on a Linux machine (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) with a USB BT
dongle as my test bed.
I've not been able to successfully connect _any_ devices to the program.
Today, it dawned on me that perhaps that was because I wasn't emulating
the right type of device (client / server).
Someone mentioned to me that they believed that the iOS devices are
_either_ clients or servers but they could not remember which.
I've spent the better part of a day reading through Apple documents
online in hopes of finding something that would state either client or
server definitively, but I've not come across anything.
I am not at all familiar with Apple products, and I'm told that I don't
need to be to make this project work.
Generally speaking, I find it difficult to believe that Apple products
are either a client or a server. My understanding of the client server
relationship is that the server initiates the connection between two BT
devices. The clients are responsible for replying to that request for a
connection, and so forth... for example, a BT keyboard would be
connected by a iOS device first 'discovering' it then the user of the
iOS device 'pairing' the keyboard to the device. In this case, the iOS
device is a server. Conversely, if you have a MacBook and want to pull
data off your iPad, you'd initiate the connection from the Mac to the
iPad, which means the Mac is in a server role.
I'm sure that someone out there can tell me where I've gone wrong or
what I'm misunderstanding.
Thanks in advance,
Chip Wachob
On 9/27/2017 4:07 PM, Jan Lübeck (Fyrastudio) wrote:
I don't think this is just macOS based... I've had help in the past
for iOS as well
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fyrastudio.com <http://fyrastudio.com>
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Chip Wachob <email@hidden
<mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
Hello,
After I went and signed up for this list I realized that it was
Mac OS based.
Can anyone point me towards a iOS list where I can request assistance?
Thanks,
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