Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Service - Mac OS X

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sandeepmistry picture sandeepmistry · Jan 29, 2013 · Viewed 11.2k times · Source

Is it possible to provide a BLE service on Mac OS X?

From the CoreBluetooth docs found here http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/CoreBluetooth/Reference/CBCentralManager_Class/translated_content/CBCentralManager.html it looks like you can just scan for and connect to peripherals. I am looking to act as a perisperhal.

Answer

sandeepmistry picture sandeepmistry · Nov 12, 2013

This is possible now with OS X Mavericks (10.9). The same CoreBluetooth CBPeripheralManager API for iOS is available on OS X.

An example can be found here.

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