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  • 12 Days of Bluetooth – #6 Bluetooth Classic on iOS

    Today we take a quick detour to look at something specific to Apple devices. You Can’t Handle The API! iOS has always been the most “locked-down” mobile platform and one of its restrictions has been a lack of support for… Continue reading

  • 12 Days of Bluetooth – #5 Coding Bluetooth Classic

    All the previous posts in this series have talked about Bluetooth technology, in this post we will look at a practical example (using .NET of course!). 32feet.NET From the initial release of the .NET Compact Framework, Microsoft included a library… Continue reading

  • 12 Days of Bluetooth – #4 Serial Port Profile

    Today we are delving into the details of a basic and widely used service. We may well come back and revisit the lower layers, but this topic will look at something you are likely to use when doing Bluetooth Classic… Continue reading

  • 12 Days of Bluetooth – #3 Protocols, Profiles and Services

    In this entry we look into the architecture of Bluetooth a little more. Stack to Basics The Bluetooth protocol stack consists of separate layers from the physical radio up to the high level services which enable various uses from headsets… Continue reading

  • 12 Days of Bluetooth – #2 Discovery

    Continuing the series, today’s post looks at how we discover and identify Bluetooth devices. I’m Not a Number Every Bluetooth device has a unique numerical address baked into the hardware – like a MAC address for a network adaptor. It… Continue reading

  • 12 Days of Bluetooth – #1 Introduction

    I thought I would set myself the challenge of blogging about Bluetooth between now and Twelfth Night. I’m going to look at 12 topics covering the technology, the various services and capabilities as well as, of course, referencing how 32feet… Continue reading

  • Thy Phone for Windows 11

    In the recent Windows 11 22H2 release Microsoft deprecated a number of APIs used for making phone calls. Previously Thy Phone had used these because they presented a standard Windows dialog for call handling (incoming and outgoing) and the experience… Continue reading

  • New 32feet.NET Documentation

    I managed to complete one of those jobs I’d been meaning to get around to for sometime and to celebrate getting the to-do list down to triple figures I thought I’d share the good news! Many years ago I built… Continue reading

    New 32feet.NET Documentation

  • Tasks for Alexa Refreshed

    Unfortunately for the past couple of weeks the Alexa skill to synchronise Microsoft To Do with Alexa lists has been limping along due to a mix up with my Azure subscription taking the Azure Function which serves the skill offline.… Continue reading

  • Home Assistant Adds In-box Bluetooth Support

    Yesterday’s release of Home Assistant 2022.8 adds built-in Bluetooth support. This allows multiple integrations to share common functionality and (important for non-Linux platforms) share a single Bluetooth adapter. In the release are five integrations built on top of this support,… Continue reading