Re: Bluetooth or WiFi?
Re: Bluetooth or WiFi?
- Subject: Re: Bluetooth or WiFi?
- From: Rick Mann <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:22:44 -0700
On Jun 9, 2011, at 21:22 , Tom Jeffries wrote:
> Wow- I would need a dongle for a software-only product? Maybe I don't know enough about Bluetooth, I was thinking that since the iPhone and the Mac each have that capability I could use it for communication between them.
iOS devices severely restrict what's allowed to connect to them via Bluetooth or USB/Serial. As far as the iPhone is concerned, the Mac is a "hardware accessory."
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Rick
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> What about sample source code that communicates between the two using WiFi? I'm an audio guy, and I'm hoping not to have to get up to speed on all the complexities of networking just to send a few bytes of data at a time from the iPhone to the Mac.
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> Thanks, Tom
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> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Jun 9, 2011, at 21:07 , Tom Jeffries wrote:
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> > I'm developing an iPhone/iPad app that needs to talk to a Mac. The data rate is low. Any suggestions as to whether to use Bluetooth or WiFi? Suggestions as to where I can find source code samples?
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> WiFi will be easiest, because Bluetooth requires that you join the MFi program, and incorporate an authentication processor IC into a USB Bluetooth dongle you'll have to make (I suppose you could make an authentication USB device and use the Mac's Bluetooth radio).
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> Rick
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