iOS How to make a bluetooth-connection between iOS and Mac/PC?

[Hexero]

The topic says it all. Is there a tutorial for this?
Thanks in advance!

 

[balamw]

The topic says it all. Is there a tutorial for this?
Thanks in advance!

iOS is very limited in the BT profiles it supports.

http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Increased_Bluetooth_Profile_Support

Officially Supported Profiles
HFP - Hands-Free Profile
HSP - Headset Profile
??? - Peer-to-peer connectivity (iPhone OS 3.0 and above; iPhone 3G and newer)
AD2P - Stereo audio streaming (iPhone OS 3.0 and above; iPhone 3G and newer)
PAN - Tethering (iPhone OS 3.0 and above; iPhone 3G and newer)
AVRCP - Media controls (Partial support since iPhone OS 3.0, improved in iOS 4.1; iPhone 3G and newer)
SPP - Serial Port Profile for Braille terminals (iOS 4.? and above)

If you jailbreak, you can do more see the link I provided.

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[firewood]

You might be able to find a way to make the Mac imitate one of the BT profiles which the iPhone supports. For instance, you might be able to make the Mac pretend to be a BT keyboard, etc.

 

[Hexero]

Thanks for the fast replies and sorry for my late one. I'm planning to make a simple remote mouse, with a leftmouse-button function. Pretty simple.
Any easy way to make this? I'm pretty new to xCode you see, so if you have some good beginner guides, be my guest to share those.

 

[balamw]

Thanks for the fast replies and sorry for my late one. I'm planning to make a simple remote mouse, with a leftmouse-button function. Pretty simple.
Any easy way to make this? I'm pretty new to xCode you see, so if you have some good beginner guides, be my guest to share those.

I don't think you can over BT without a jailbreak.

are you thinking something along the lines of the Logitech Touch Mouse app?

That one actually works over WiFi and requires a separate server to be installed.

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[Hexero]

More like a presentation remote.
WiFi may also be a possibility.

 

[ulbador]

This has to be relatively open. The Chopper 2 app allows you to control the app on your iPad via your iPhone over bluetooth (and it actually works slick). I don't know what official "profile" they would have used, but I think this demonstrates you can do effectively whatever you can think of with it.

More like a presentation remote.
WiFi may also be a possibility.

You can do this very easily with WiFi. A few lines of Bonjour code and you can have a server up and going (with the Mac side program doing whatever you want).

 

[chown33]

This has to be relatively open. The Chopper 2 app allows you to control the app on your iPad via your iPhone over bluetooth (and it actually works slick). I don't know what official "profile" they would have used, but I think this demonstrates you can do effectively whatever you can think of with it.

GameKit:
http://developer.apple.com/library/.../GameKit_Guide/Introduction/Introduction.html

 

[balamw]

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GameKit is only for iOS to iOS, right?

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