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GameKit and GKPeerPicker on 1st Gen iPhone and iPod Touch

This is my current set up for my multiplayer game: A view that gives connection tips and warns the user that multiplayer will not work on the 1st Gen iPhone or ipod Touch. There is a "connect" button that pushes the game view and starts the GKPeerPicker. Unfortunately, I don't have a 1st Gen iPhone or iPod Touch to test what happens...

Connect midlet to server in internet via bluetooth

Hi! I'm writing an application that's basically a midlet that connects via WiFi to a server on the internet. Everything's running fine, once I load the midlet onto the phone and start it, I get prompted on which way would I like to connect to the internet, so I select a WiFi access point and connect to the server. Now, I would like to...

Using bluetooth to identify devices in range out of potentially thousands?

Greetings! The idea is simple. Let's say that I have a service wherein people can walk up to a kiosk and "pair their phone" with a bluetooth device on that kiosk. We'll ignore why people would do this, but let's say that they have an incentive to do so. Let's say that I have convinced thousands (if not millions) of people to do this ...

Syncing issues using GameKit

I am trying to make a simple two player snake game that uses gameKit to send movement information back and forth. I start the game out with the server sending a command to start the game. Once the game starts a timer fires every .5 seconds that moves the snakes. No matter what I do I end up with the timers on the two iPhones firing at di...

How many clients can be supported by Gamekit server in IPhone 3.0

The GameKit in iPhone SDK 3.0 create a peer-to-peer bluetooth connection between two iPhones, using Server-client model. In the bluetooth spec, up to 7 clients can be connected to a server. But in GameKit document, there is no words for this issue. Does it means a GameKit server can connect more than 7 clients? If yes, does that mean som...

Symbol.WPAN.Bluetooth example that transfers data

I am trying to use Symbol.WPAN.Bluetooth that comes with the EMDK for Symbol devices. Does anyone happen to have a working example that transfers data? Symbol's example just pairs the devices. (They apparently think that transfering data is not really needed in a Personal Area network example.) Anyway, I know this is a long shot, but...

bluetooth search and receive sms

Can the bluetooth search run while checking if any SMS messages have been received? When I try to check if there is a new SMS by the command "msg = smsconn.receive()", the program will not go back to search for bluetooth devices. Meaning that I can't get it to check for SMS while running the bluetooth search. Can someone please help m...

Windows Mobile - Serial Port Communcations

I have never done a program where I had to do the communication over a serial port. I am trying to do it now to allow Bluetooth communication via 2 devices and am getting nowhere. I have a Application on the devices (called Bluetooth Explorer) that allows me to do serial communication and it will be sent over Bluetooth, using the Stone...

RSSI for Bluetooth

Can any one help me to write code for RSSI in Bluetooth. any tool and techniques used for this to find it easily ...

Commanding a device to send SMS through Dial Up Networking in Python

How to tell a device, which has an open Dial Up Networking port, to send and SMS with a given body to a given short code? How to implement it in Python? ...

Sending a file with OBEX push in Python

How to send a file using OBEX push to a device, which has an open OBEX port in Python? In my case it is a Bluetooth device. ...

.NET/Python bluetooth library that supports passkeys

Is there a .NET/Python library that supports Bluetooth passkey authentication? I'd like to create a Windows desktop application that would scan for Bluetooth devices and interact with them. So in case of .NET it is .NET Desktop. What .NET/Python lib should I use (preferably the one that supports passkey authentication along with a no-a...

bluetooth in iphone

Hi all, Is it possible to send a file using bluetooth programatically ? Any suggestions or any alternative methods ?? Thanks ...

l2cap server/client using IOBluetooth (osx bluetooth stack)

I'm having trouble understanding the API to set up a l2cap (or RFCOMM) client/server running on OSX like I can with BlueZ on Linux. On Linux, I simply open a socket, bind, listen & then accept for the server, & socket, bind, connect for the client (w/ the bind taking in the BT address of the device I want to use). Also, there's no pair...

Communication over a Bluetooth PAN Ad-hoc network on Windows Mobile

I have two devices that are connected via a Bluetooth Ad-hoc Personal Area Network. What can I do to actually have my app communicate over this network? I am kind of at a loss for the next step. The end goal is to take a in memory class and transfer from one device to the other. I would love an example in C#. (I am using Compact Fra...

Bluetooth Example Code for Cocoa (Objective-C)

I'm looking for example code for setting up a connection to a bluetooth device using the Bluetooth API in Cocoa. Apple used to include this type of example code in the XCode tools package under the /Developer/Examples/Bluetooth folder, but upon downloading the latest version of XCode (3.2.1), these bluetooth examples have been removed f...

How can I write to the my keyboard device driver I will create?

I would like to build a Bluetooth keyboard for a smartphone like this product. This product has a hardware driver. How can I write device driver for my keyboard. ...

How to detect that Symbian phone is being used as a modem?

I have a Nokia Symbian Series 60 3rd edition phone. I can use it as a GPRS / 3G modem either using Bluetooth, USB or IR. Is there a way to programmatically detect when the phone is being used as a modem? Please note I don't want to detect when a GPRS / 3G connection comes up (such as when you use the phone browser), but when a GPRS / 3...

Bluetooth in Ruby (Mac/Cross Platform)

Hi all, I'm trying to get a list of the bluetooth addresses (the MAC address-like hex digits unique to each bluetooth device) within range of the bluetooth device inside my mac in the ruby language. I'm hoping to make my work publicly available, so it'd be nice if it was platform agnostic. Googling only helps so much: hcitool etc are...

Bluetooth APIs to detect radio on\off of a remote device.

Currently i am using Bluetooth APIs meant for Microsoft bluetooth stack. I have developed an bluetooth PC application in C++ which discovers remote bluetooth device and then authenticate device through some API. Problem is when i turn off bluetooth radio from remote device and then start searching the device again through PC application,...