How to detect if bluetooth is enabled in phone?

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kungjohan
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How to detect if bluetooth is enabled in phone?

Postby kungjohan » 16:13, 09 Dec 2014

Is there a api call in easyble.js to check if bluetooth is enabled in phone settings?
And if it is not enabled can you enabled it by an addional call?

Fredrik
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Re: How to detect if bluetooth is enabled in phone?

Postby Fredrik » 14:33, 10 Dec 2014

Normally, if Bluetooth is turned off and you call a Bluetooth function, the user gets asked to turn Bluetooth on. We have reports that, on iOS, this sometimes doesn't happen. We're looking into the issue.

kungjohan
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Re: How to detect if bluetooth is enabled in phone?

Postby kungjohan » 14:55, 10 Dec 2014

I am running on Ios and I do not get any notification.
But if the expected behaviour is to get a popup I will have to wait for this fix.

I found that there was some other methods in the cordova plugin: https://github.com/don/BluetoothSerial

bluetoothSerial.isEnabled

I was thinking if there were something similar?

Fredrik
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Re: How to detect if bluetooth is enabled in phone?

Postby Fredrik » 15:36, 10 Dec 2014

Well, we do include BluetoothSerial in our Evothings Client. You could use that.

kungjohan
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Re: How to detect if bluetooth is enabled in phone?

Postby kungjohan » 10:02, 18 Dec 2014

Reading on the page http://evothings.com/doc/studio/mobile-app.html

It seems like that plugin is only included in Android version.

Is there an instruction on how to add plugins to MacOs/Ios version?

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Re: How to detect if bluetooth is enabled in phone?

Postby Fredrik » 10:23, 18 Dec 2014

Cordova plugins are added the same way on every platform, but iOS, unfortunately, does not support Classic Bluetooth for apps at all.


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