site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: bluetooth-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 That is encouraging! Thanks! I'm new to BT, and new to Apple, so please forgive any flubs below. https://anselm.hoffmeister.be/computer/hidclient/index.html.en I've not been able to successfully connect _any_ devices to the program. Thanks in advance, Chip Wachob On 9/27/2017 4:07 PM, Jan Lübeck (Fyrastudio) wrote: *_______**___* Jan Lübeck Chief Technology Officer fyrastudio.com <http://fyrastudio.com> 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,  _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Bluetooth-dev mailing list      (Bluetooth-dev@lists.apple.com <mailto:Bluetooth-dev@lists.apple.com>) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/bluetooth-dev/jan%40fyrastudio.com <https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/bluetooth-dev/jan%40fyrastudio.com> This email sent to jan@fyrastudio.com <mailto:jan@fyrastudio.com> _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Bluetooth-dev mailing list (Bluetooth-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/bluetooth-dev/site_archiver%40lists.... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com 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: I'm developing on a Linux machine (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) with a USB BT dongle as my test bed. 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. I don't think this is just macOS based... I've had help in the past for iOS as well On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Chip Wachob <cw@allenorgan.com <mailto:cw@allenorgan.com>> wrote: