Questions tagged [bluetooth-lowenergy]
Bluetooth Low Energy ("BLE") is a radio standard developed in 2006 and integrated in Bluetooth 4.0 in December 2009. Formerly marketed as Bluetooth Smart.
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Android 4.3 Bluetooth Low Energy unstable
I am currently developing an application that will use Bluetooth Low Energy (testing on the Nexus 4). After getting started with the official BLE APIs in Android 4.3, I have noticed that after I ...
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What is the iBeacon Bluetooth Profile
I'd like to create my own iBeacon with some Bluetooth Low Energy dev kits. Apple has yet to release a specification for iBeacons, however, a few hardware developers have reverse Engineered the iBeacon ...
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Location needs to be enabled for Bluetooth Low Energy Scanning on Android 6.0
After upgrading to Android version 6.0 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) scanning will only work if Location services are enabled on the device. See here for reference: Bluetooth Low Energy startScan on ...
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Understanding ibeacon distancing
Trying to grasp a basic concept of how distancing with ibeacon (beacon/ Bluetooth-lowenergy/BLE) can work. Is there any true documentation on how far exactly an ibeacon can measure. Lets say I am 300 ...
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How to connect Android device to an iOS device over BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy)
I'm trying to make an application which uses the new Bluetooth Low Energy API of Android. For this, I started with the BLE sample coming with API level 18.
As I read that Android can not act as a ...
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Can an Android device act as an iBeacon?
Can an Android device act as an iBeacon and figure out when other Android devices come in its range? Do those other Android devices need to have Bluetooth turned on?
If a customer comes into my shop ...
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Android BLE API: GATT Notification not received
Device used for testing: Nexus 4, Android 4.3
Connection is working fine but the onCharacteristicChangedMethod of my callback is never called. However I am registering for notifications using ...
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Triangulate example for iBeacons
I am looking into the possibility to use multiple iBeacons to do a 'rough' indoor position location. The application is a kind of 'museum' setting, and it would be easier to be able to form a grid ...
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Run iPhone as an iBeacon in the background
Is it possible to run an iOS 7 device as a Bluetooth LE peripheral (iBeacon) and have it advertise in the background? I have been able to get it to advertise in the foreground with the code below and ...
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Android: Sending data >20 bytes by BLE
I am able to send data upto 20 bytes by connecting to an external BLE device. How do I send data greater than 20 bytes. I have read that we have to either fragment the data or split characteristic to ...
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Difference between close() and disconnect()?
Android Bluetooth Low Energy API implements 1 method to connect to the device connectGatt() but 2 methods to close the connection disconnect() and close().
Documentation says:
disconnect(): ...
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hcitool lescan shows I/O error
I'm trying to do a lescan using hcitool on the raspberry pi.
The command prints out
Set scan parameters failed: Input/output error.
I'm not sure, what exactly happens here. My iPhone is ...
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iOS Core Bluetooth : Getting API MISUSE Warning
I am writing a test app in iOS 7 with the Core Bluetooth API. When I am testing the application I found that I am getting the following warning message:
TestBluetooth[626:60b] CoreBluetooth[API ...
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Get MAC address of bluetooth low energy peripheral in iOS
I am currently working on an iOS application based on bluetooth low energy devices. In order to get a unique identifier to compare the peripherals got, I have to get the MAC address of the peripherals....
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Use BlueZ Stack As A Peripheral (Advertiser)
Goal: Use BlueZ and an Bluetooth 4LE dongle to create a peripheral that advertises the bluetooth equivalent of "Hello World".
Where I'm At: I've currently got the BlueZ stack setup and downloaded, I ...
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