Re: Mac APIs for Bluetooth networking?
Re: Mac APIs for Bluetooth networking?
- Subject: Re: Mac APIs for Bluetooth networking?
- From: Peter Sichel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:04:41 -0400
In Mac OS X, Apple provides two frameworks for dealing with Bluetooth
IOBluetooth.framework
IOBluetoothUI.framework
The first one is for getting at the stack, while the second provides
standard UI components for pairing devices, selecting devices, and
browsing and selecting services (standard Bluetooth profiles).
Apple also provides some good examples in /Developer/Examples/
Bluetooth/.
I just started my first Bluetooth project about a week ago and have
been pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to get up and running.
"Service Discovery" in Bluetooth generally refers to discovering the
available Bluetooth devices and service profiles, whereas you are
interested in adapting your own network "service".
I'm not sure how the iPhone OS 3.0 does this, but would love to learn
more.
- Peter
On Jul 9, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
Hopefully this isn't too off-topic...
I'm interested in making my MYNetwork library support Bluetooth. So
I'd like to know what the right OS X APIs are for using Bluetooth
for service discovery (like Bonjour) and peer-to-peer messaging. It
would be ideal if there were an API for reliable delivery of
variable-length messages, but failing that, if there's a TCP-like
bidirectional streaming API, I can run my BLIP protocol over it.
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