Re: iOS usb/serial access and use

2018-04-16 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
> On 17 Apr 2018, at 3:27 am, Douglas Ruisaard via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hmmm... I found an interesting and possibly an exploitable approach... > possibly in combination with Monte's suggestion that "mergAccessory" may be a > component. In the link: > https://apple.stackexchange.com/que

Re: iOS usb/serial access and use

2018-04-16 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
> On 17 Apr 2018, at 12:13 am, Douglas Ruisaard via use-livecode > wrote: > It does somewhat bother me, though, that use of the USB to an iOS device *is* > available "within" LC but not exposed as a function... I though the LC IDE > was written in LC ... someone had that in a posting I read r

RE: iOS usb/serial access and use

2018-04-16 Thread Douglas Ruisaard via use-livecode
net] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 7:14 AM To: 'use-livecode@lists.runrev.com' Subject: Re: iOS usb/serial access and use Thanks for the reply, Monte. Well, that's disappointing but not surprising. Kinda like "Dad" not letting you drive his car ... although I'm li

Re: iOS usb/serial access and use

2018-04-16 Thread Douglas Ruisaard via use-livecode
Thanks for the reply, Monte. Well, that's disappointing but not surprising. Kinda like "Dad" not letting you drive his car ... although I'm likely older than "Dad" and willing to take the "responsibility". I guess it's on to XCode, then. It's good to have a definitive answer to this question

Re: iOS usb/serial access and use

2018-04-15 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
Hi Douglas Unless something has changed recently iOS does not provide a public way to use the USB cable. It could be that there is a third party accessory that you can plug in to do this though. If so you could use mergAccessory to read and write to it. Cheers Monte > On 16 Apr 2018, at 1:42

iOS usb/serial access and use

2018-04-15 Thread Douglas Ruisaard via use-livecode
I've managed, with a lot of help from the community, to get the mergBLE commands and messages working very well between my LC iOS app and an arduino. Now, for the next "component", I'd like to be able to communicate to and from the arduino to and from an iOS device (iPhone or iPad) via a "hardw