Howto programmatically turn on/off WiFi and Bluetooth?

ae6rt · 09-04-2008, 12:16 PM

Is there a programmatic way to turn on and off the WiFi and Bluetooth networks on the iPhone? I'm looking for the same functionality that Settings/[General/Bluetooth],WiFi/OnOff provides.

Thanks.

mosttornbrain · 09-04-2008, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ae6rt

Is there a programmatic way to turn on and off the WiFi and Bluetooth networks on the iPhone? I'm looking for the same functionality that Settings/[General/Bluetooth],WiFi/OnOff provides.

There isn't a way using the APIs provided by the SDK. It's trivial to do if you use private frameworks, but if you use private frameworks, you will be in violation of Apple's SDK license agreement.

I've already written such an app for my own purposes (toggling Bluetooth on and off), but for obvious reasons I can't distribute it. Details can be found here if you are interested:

Stormy Productions: The most useful iPhone app I can't release

Cheers.

ae6rt · 09-04-2008, 02:09 PM

Thanks. That's what I suspected. Too bad. Hopefully this will be part of the public API one day.

ghiboz · 09-26-2009, 06:55 PM

I'm interested about this:
in the PhotoShare application, if the bluetooth is deactived, automatically is activated...
so... how did you think that PhotoShare works??

johnathon · 11-15-2009, 12:37 PM

Can you please tell me how to programatically turn on Bluetooth using the private api.

FlyingDiver · 11-15-2009, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by johnathon

Can you please tell me how to programatically turn on Bluetooth using the private api.

See link in post #2 above.

joe

Noise · 11-15-2009, 02:43 PM

Yep - the issue is private frameworks. Which means Apple will most definitely reject the app.

There are alternatives, however. The Jailbreak Community can always make use of apps like that. However, from what I've been seeing of late, the "Jailbreak Community" is dying off pretty fast, as a lot of the devs for it are either moving to the App Store, or simply charging obscene prices for once free apps. They either handle their records poorly, or simply don't care, and as a result many "buyers" of their apps have been completely screwed over. ZodTTD, I'm looking at you.

johnathon · 11-15-2009, 05:49 PM

Thanks for the link but I was wondering actually how to do it (frameworks to import, maybe even some code).

**Shmoopi** · 11-15-2009, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by johnathon

Thanks for the link but I was wondering actually how to do it (frameworks to import, maybe even some code).

You're going to find a hard time finding that code here, I would suggest you try searching through some cydia apps source code such as Bossprefs or Customize. You can also try searching through the "System" commands that the iPhone utilizes. For example:

Code:

system("killall springboard");

johnathon · 11-16-2009, 12:44 PM

I found this but how do i use it. How do I refere to the bluetooth?

KZS · 02-02-2010, 11:43 AM

Hey, did you get anywhere with this lately? I hope Apple releases some new APIs in OS 4.0.

johnathon · 02-03-2010, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by KZS

Hey, did you get anywhere with this lately? I hope Apple releases some new APIs in OS 4.0.

Yeah, I figured out how to toggle bluetooth

KZS · 02-03-2010, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by johnathon

Yeah, I figured out how to toggle bluetooth

Awesome. Did you use the above references to figure it out? I haven't had a chance to look at them yet.

johnathon · 02-04-2010, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by KZS

Awesome. Did you use the above references to figure it out? I haven't had a chance to look at them yet.

i used the private framework called bluetooth manager. i found the .h in spotlight somehow

Destriarch · 10-04-2010, 07:56 AM

This might not be useful to you, but I believe that if you use a GKPeerPicker to connect two iPhones together, it will automatically request that the user enable Bluetooth and provide a dialog box to do so. This isn't much use if, like me, you're making an app that needs to connect multiple clients to a single host.

-Ash

iSDK · 10-04-2010, 01:58 PM

Did you ever work out how to toggle wifi?

Destriarch · 10-05-2010, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by iSDK

Did you ever work out how to toggle wifi?

Not sure if it helps, but there's a key that you can put into the application .plist called 'App requires Wifi' or something similar that I think should ensure that WiFi is available. Sadly it doesn't do the same for Bluetooth.

-Ash