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Prop bluetooth iPad?

T ChapT Chap Posts: 4,224
edited 2012-07-10 03:00 in Propeller 1
For a cheap way to go for production how would you do this? I want to create an iPad app to connect with a prop. A low cost chipset/ module needed.

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  • Mike GreenMike Green Posts: 23,101
    edited 2012-07-09 21:38
    You can't do iPad Bluetooth. Most of the modules talk SPP (Serial Port Protocol) and the iPad doesn't handle that. It can do Bluetooth audio, that's about it. It can talk to Bluetooth keyboards, but I've not found a module that will handle that. The easiest way to use an iPad with a Prop is to use WiFi. There's an iPad app called Mocha Telnet Lite that will establish a Telnet link via WiFi to a Roving Networks WiFly module which mounts in an xBee socket like the one on the PropBOE. I've used a setup like that to use an iPad as the console for a version of FemtoBasic for the PropBOE. You could use the same IOS WiFi TCP/IP APIs to write your own app to talk to a WiFly module.
  • max72max72 Posts: 1,155
    edited 2012-07-10 03:00
    Bluetooth for Ipad has been discussed in the past, like here:
    http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?138091-Prop-to-iPad-via-Bluetooth
    The problem is Ipad will accept only apple certified units, and if I remember correctly you are supposed to have a special type of bluetooth chip, sold by Apple only in case of certified and accepted peripherals.
    WiFi is the easiest workaround.
    The Roving Networks modules are cheap and easy to configure. There is also a mass market quadcopter controlled by iphone/ipad that uses a wifi connection as workaround, probably because the bluetooth certification is not for faint hearted...
    Massimo
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