Is it possible to search and detect Bluetooth [MFI] headset or other [MFI] device wit

[tharindufit]

Hi,

I would like to know whether its possible from iPhone SDK app to detect and find the Name of a [MFI] Bluetooth device other than an iPhone or iPod touch.

If its possible could someone kindly provide few guides to look into it. Or some references to code related.

Thanks and Kind Regards,

Tharindu

[holmesy999]

Originally Posted by tharindufit

Hi,

I would like to know whether its possible from iPhone SDK app to detect and find the Name of a [MFI] Bluetooth device other than an iPhone or iPod touch.

If its possible could someone kindly provide few guides to look into it. Or some references to code related.

Thanks and Kind Regards,

Tharindu

Hey - did you get any information on this?

I'm interested to see if you can use the ipod touch / iphone to do a search of ALL bluetooth's that are on in your area and record the information (ie store the unique bluetooth id of all devices in the area including those that aren't ipod/iphones) - as far as I can see GKPeerPickerController only returns the names of devices that are ipod/iphone friendly? and there is no way to get this list out of GKPeerPickerController?

[tharindufit]

Hi,

I found out following information regarding this.

We could only search for the nearby iPhone and iPod touch devices using GameKit APIs.

Using External Accessory framework, we are able to list nearby Bluetooth devices ( MFi Complaint) that are already paired using iPhone Settings Application.

So there's some limitation with the Apple APIs when it comes to Bluetooth searching for non-iPhone devices. It could be due to security concerns.

Thanks,

Tharindu