bluetooth

How can an iPhone access another non-iPhone device over wireless or bluetooth?

I'm trying to figure out if an iPhone can connect to another non-iPhone device over wireless or bluetooth and have seen conflicting information. Much of what I've found was before version 3.0 of the SDK came out, when it certainly wasn't possible. Looking at questions like this mention you can't connect to an arbitrary device unless if...

detecting presence of bluetooth printer

I'm working on a mobile application (C#/WPF on a tablet PC) that prints to a bluetooth connected printer. Right now I just fire off a print job, and if the printer is not present the printer subsystem reports an error to the user. I'm not doing anything programatically with Bluetooth, just using PrintDialog(). I'd like to modify this ...

bluetooth protocol stack implementation

Hi, I want to know how to implement bluetooth protocol stack. Any good links or references will be appreciated. How and from where should I start Thanks. ...

Is it possible to connect iphone to printer via bluetooth?

I want to connect iphone to a printer via bluetooth, but I don't find any class about bluetooth in iPhone 3.0 SDK. Do I need to join "Made for iPod and Works with iPhone Licensing Program" to get the SDK? Or is it possible to do this without joining the program? ...

How can you turn on/off bluetooth programatically on .NET CF?

I write my little MP3 player app. I want to allow the user to chose audio output (speaker/headphone or bluetooth headset). How can I turn on/off the bluetooth capabilities of a Windows Mobile phone programatically? Once the connection with the BT headset is made, how can I get notified when the connection is broken/closed/lost? (Once BT...

How can I incorporate bluetooth in C#?

Hello all, I'm trying to make my laptop communicate with a robot using bluetooth and with a user interface in C#. The information I need to send is very small and basic. It is a simple string and that is it. I have not had any experience using bluetooth really, so the way i figure it for the laptop I could use the built-in bluetooth ...

How to programmatically select the BT device to push a file to?

Hi, I am designing an information kiosk and need a BT application which can automatically push a file to the nearest BT enabled device assuming that this would be the phone of the person currently standing in front of the kiosk. Is there any other ways of doing this except by checking the RSSI (Received Singal Strength Indicator)? Do...

Is file transfer possible to iPhone 3.0 via Bluetooth or not?

Is it possible to transfer files of a bluetooth device, lets say a digital pen (e.g. Nokia or Logitech io2) to the iPhone? I am interested if I could do a native application that could somehow get that binary file sent by the digital pen and do something with it. I am used to rfcomm and obex but I can only find inconclusive results when...

Should the results returned by CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent() be accurate across devices?

I am trying to debug an iPhone app that uses bluetooth for communication. I am basically wondering if the devices should agree on the time down to the millisecond. I am stamping the message when it is sent from one device with CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent() and subtracting that from CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent() on the other device when the mes...

code that send stuff through bluetooth?

i wanna build a .net app that will have a capability of send stuff to mobile phones through Bluetooth. any suggestions? ...

Java(J2SE) and Bluetooth

Hi. I want to write some small program. It will run on my computer(laptop) with bluetooth adapter and then discover all the visible bluetooth adapters(phones, printers, other computers, etc.), but i've not worked with bluetooth in Java before... Help me to find starting point, pls. What SDKs or libraries i must download first? What liter...

How can I turn on and off the bluetooth on iphone sdk programatically?

Hello, how can I tell programatically if the bluetooth is turned on or of on the device? And in ethier case turn it off or on programatically? thanks ...

How to start bluetooth pairing process?

I have an Java application on my PC and database.There are some MAC and PIN data in DB. I'm sending messages (now it's text files over OBEX put method, but in future it will be SMS messages i hope :) ), so when i discover some device, then discover needed service i'm looking to the DB and if the phone MAC in the DB i need to start ...

iPod touches cannot find each other through GameKit

I have two physical iPod touch devices. If I try running a program that uses a GKPeerPickerController to find another iPod touch running the same program, they just stay at the peer picker screen without any progress. Both have bluetooth enabled. I have tried my own program, along with Apple's GKTank sample app. Neither of the iPods ...

Development kit for Bluetooth which allows customisation of the modulation algorithms.

We need to perform some experiments on the Bluetooth protocol, and for this we need a development kit which allows us to implement/modify different parts of the Bluetooth protocol stack. We have been looking at the TI MSP430 Wireless Development Tool (EZ430-RF2500). This kit contains a MSP430 MCU and a CC2500 multi-channel RF transceive...

SDR kit with 2.4GHz RF frontend?

Do you know a SDR (Software Defined Radio) kit with a 2.4GHz ISM band (2400MHz - 2483.5MHz) transceiver? I need to perform some software defined radio including customised modulation. Also the price for one kit should be at maximum $1000. I know there are some extremely expensive solutions out there, but that is unfortunately not an opt...

Getting the address of a bluetooth device

I'm trying to write an application that gets the addresses of any bluetooth devices in range, no pairing or any transfer, just want the address that's all. Any advice where to start? Many thanks .. ...

Is socket over bluetooth eavesdropping proof?

I am sending sensitive data through socket connection over Bluetooth, no pairing involved. The environment is windows mobile 6, Microsoft BT stack, DOTNET CF. Some article I've read suggested that the data link layer handles encryption before L2CAP layer connection is established but I am not sure how does MS BT Stack communicate with th...

j2se to j2me WTK bluetoooth communication

Hi all, I need some way to communicate between J2SE app and j2me midlet running in emulator in netbeans. how can i achieve this? Abdul Khaliq ...

getsockopt sensible for SOCK_STREAM + BTHPROTO_RFCOMM ?

I'm connecting to a bluetooth socket like so, SOCKET s = socket(AF_BTH, SOCK_STREAM, BTHPROTO_RFCOMM); SOCKADDR_BTH bthSockAddr; bthSockAddr.btAddr = addr; bthSockAddr.addressFamily = AF_BTH; bthSockAddr.port = BT_PORT_ANY; bthSockAddr.serviceClassId = SerialPortServiceClass_UUID; if ( 0==connect( sOut, (sockaddr*)&bthSockAddr,sizeof...