bluetooth

Is iPhone Proximity detection possible with Bluetooth?

Hi everyone, Would it be possible to fill a building with 20 - 30 bluetooth devices that act as proximity detectors and write an app that can calculate location in the building based on distance from the current detected sensors. I've looked at the GameKit API, but I don't see anything about calculating distance from devices. Can some...

Is it possible to pair BluetoothDevice programmatically android?

Hi, Currently Iam using backport.android.bluetooth2.jar file for bluetooth programming with Android 1.5.Whenever device pairing fails it populates alert dialog for passKey and if i give passkey then in my log iam getting below error 07-21 12:25:52.419: WARN/BluetoothDeviceService(948): setPin(00:0E:6D:BA:89:F3) called but no native data...

[BT][HID] How is a Bluetooth HID connection handled in Ubuntu or android

Hi I am working on a project that uses the Bluetooth HID profile. I understand that the BlueZ stack in android has the HID support but its not extended to app layer by Android Framework. My main concern is to understand the driver level flow for a Bluetooth HID device. I would like to add a new HID device driver that can handle the ke...

Setting up a pc bluetooth server for android

Alright, I've been reading a lot of topics the past two or three days and nothing seems to have asked this. I am writing a PC side server for my andriod device, this is for exchanging some information and general debugging. Eventually I will be connecting to a SPP device to control a microcontroller. I have managed, using the following...

What is the best way to do file or data transfer over bluetooth on Android using SPP

I have tried to ask this question several different ways. I just need a little bit of nudging in the right direction. I have been able to pair devices and open input and output stream on the bluetooth socket, but am flummoxed by how to control the asynchronous read from an input stream. If the file/data size is known, I can easily loop u...

Phone as Bluetooth Headset

Hello, I need my phone to act like a Bluetooth headset. I am planning to run a J2ME application in Phone to make Phone as Bluetooth Headset. Any idea how to do this? ...

bluetooth notification when turned on/off.

Hi All, Is there any way i can get a notification when bluetooth is turned on/off. This is for a personal project not targeted for AppStore. Are there any C/Mac API's for the same? ...

Using an iPhone audio dongle to transmit data

Hi, i've just started working at a biomedical company and we need to communicate data from a device we are making to an iPhone. Obviously using the made for iPhone program would suffice, but for prototyping and for a simpler solution i was wondering if we could use an existing bluetooth audio transmitter, such as (http://www.buy.com/prod...

How can I make pybluez return a list of discovered devices every X seconds and then repeat?

I've been trying to figure out how I can use pybluez to monitor nearby devices... I want to be able to run my program and have it search for devices every 20 seconds. The problem is, how do I get pybluez to place nicely? :/ Using their example code http://code.google.com/p/pybluez/source/browse/trunk/examples/simple/inquiry.py, it's ea...

Bluetooth library for Windows

hi. Where can I find the bluetooth API details for Windows Xp, dlls etc for PAN connection etc. Thanks and Regards, Anjali ...

Symbian C++ - synchronous Bluetooth discovery with timeout using RHostResolver

I am writing an application in Qt to be deployed on Symbian S60 platform. Unfortunately, it needs to have Bluetooth functionality - nothing really advanced, just simple RFCOMM client socket and device discovery. To be exact, the application is expected to work on two platforms - Windows PC and aforementioned S60. Of course, since Qt lac...

How does Bonjour Over Bluetooth Work

Can anyone explain how bonjour works over bluetooth from iphone OS 3.0 onwards? The documentation says the Bonjour API's used in the application just works even if Wi-fi is off and Bluetooth is on. It also says , a Bluetooth PAN is established and hence IP address comes into picture. But Bonjour (based on mdns) requires multicast to wo...

Android 2.1 & HTC Desire: Is there a bluetooth problem? (CorruptedStreamException)

I made an application that is using Android SDK 2.1. This application uses bluetooth to connect to multiple devices. I have 3 HTC Dreams (Google G1) as test devices. The application is running really fine on them. They are rooted and Android 2.1 is running on them. If I join with my HTC Desire (Android 2.1 Update 1), the streams that r...

Can I enable bluetooth on a mobile device with java?

sorry for my bad english, can someone tha has worked with java on a mobile device (cell phone) tell me if its possible to enable the bluetooth connection of the device from a java application? thanks ...

is there a bluetoooth device or kit that can accept text messages

I want to be able to send arbitrary messages from my iphone to the bluetooth device and have it display it. I would like to know if there is something already commercially available or something that can be put together with a little bit of effort. ...

Bluetooth - Is there any way through which an applicantion can set the PIN to be used for a bluetooth connection

Hi All, I wanted to build an application related to Bluetooth in Android . Is there any way by which I can set the PIN from my application in Android other than using system dialog box to enter PIN which pops out . I checked for API's given by Android for bluetooth, but I could not locate any API for setting keys for bluetooth as provid...

Can I set the PIN for Bluetooth from my application in Android

Hi All, I wanted to build an application related to Bluetooth in Android . Is there any way by which I can set the PIN from my application in Android other than using system dialog box to enter PIN which pops out . I checked for API's given by Android for bluetooth, but I could not locate any API for setting keys for bluetooth as provid...

How to start bluetooth services to connect PC and J2ME fone for data transfer?

I built an app in java as j2me midlet which can discover other bluetooth devices. But it cannot discover their services. I need to be able to transfer some simple numbers from my fone to PC running on Vista. I think it has Broadcom bluetooth h/w! I also got the braodcom SDK but i didnt understand the documentation they provided. It uses ...

Where does the Bluetooth HID Profile reside?

I'm new to android development and as a pet project I wanted to try and connect to an bluetooth device using the HID profile using an android phone. The phone I'll be using is the vibrant and according to samsung it doesn't support the HID Profile ( http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa/jsp/faqs/faqs_view_us.jsp?SITE_ID=22&PG_ID=2&amp...

Send sms from Cocoa application

I want to make a simple program to send SMS from osX. I know there's already something available on the web, but I want to code it by myself. I need to know if there's any useful API to write this with Cocoa or how to send AT commands to any discovered device. Thank you. ...