Because of the Braille display support, I also thought that this was possible. However, I can't tract down any information about SPP in iOS 4.
Besides Braille displays (which are supported), there are GPS receivers that work, too. They have to be using a serial connection. There doesn't seem to be any public way to do it, unless... iOS is really OS X stripped down, which is BSD. It's possible that there isn't a high level IOKit sort of way to get at the serial port, but it may be as simpple as read/write with a TTY device. There are lots of people on the web that think so, but I can't find any success stories. This is very surprising. The iPhone is great in a lot of ways, but I'm occasionally brought up short by how locked down it is in a particular area. It seems that the iPhone might be too technically limited at the moment to do what we want. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aman Singer Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Bluetooth serial port profile on iOS 4. Hi, Mike. I can confirm that this didn't work on any 3.x version of the software. I did try it with a Touch and Phone running 3.x, and the results were the same, they seemed not even to see the receiver. Now, however, we know the underlying code is there because the Braille displays are using it. If you have a few minutes to give it a shot, I, for one, would be most appreciative. Aman -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 7:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Bluetooth serial port profile on iOS 4. I may give this another try, perhaps it's changed in version 4, it didn't work in version 3 with a gps receiver, apple does keep pretty tight control over what you can use and what you can't, sometimes too much in my opinion. On Jul 11, 2010, at 11:04 PM, Aman Singer wrote: > Hi, all. > Recently, in an interesting discussion about bar code reading > solutions for the iPhone, Brian mentioned that bar code scanners use > the Bluetooth serial port profile as, of course, do braille displays. > I'm just wondering if anyone has tried an external GPS receiver on the > iPhone. I'm sure that the iPhone does support the profile, simply > because braille displays use it, but is this support available to > other applications? I do not currently have access to the phone to try > it myself. > Thanks. > Aman > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
