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Bluetooth

  • 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

  • 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

  • Bluetooth for MAUI

    Quick update today as I’ve just published new builds of InTheHand.BluetoothLE and InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth to NuGet which support the new .NET 6.0 MAUI target platforms. There were some small code changes to make in the iOS/macOS APIs and on Android I… Continue reading

  • When is a BluetoothRadio not a BluetoothRadio?

    A user of 32feet pointed out a change in behaviour between version 3.5 and 4.0. If you disabled the Bluetooth radio after initially getting a reference to the default radio it would still show the Mode as Connectable/Discoverable. I looked… Continue reading

  • 32feet for WinRT

    Currently the 32feet Bluetooth Classic library for Windows is build around the Win32 API to ensure support for Windows 7 as well as theoretically supporting prior versions no longer officially supported. It has always been my aim to implement the… Continue reading

  • 32feet.NET on .NET 5.0 and Above

    Version 4.0.22 of InTheHand.BluetoothLE (and 4.0.25 of InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth for Rfcomm) marks an important milestone. It adds a .NET 5.0 specific build which is important because the approach used to access WinRT APIs has changed since .NET Core 3.x and so… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth and Windows 11

    It’s still early days for Windows 11 but pre-release API documentation is available on Microsoft Docs and it gives some hints of new functionality for developers:- BluetoothLEDevice gains functionality to request preferred connection parameters. These include minimum and maximum connection… Continue reading

  • Bluetooth Virtual Sniffer for Windows

    I only just found out about this but Microsoft released a packet sniffer for Bluetooth on Windows 10 back in February. This is incredibly useful for debugging and is something I’ve been craving for some time. Previously I’ve been able… Continue reading

  • What’s in a BluetoothLEDevice.Name

    I’ve noticed an odd behaviour when creating a BluetoothLEDevice from a found device id. I’m not doing anything special, just retrieving paired devices and then trying to access the relevant BluetoothLEDevice. In common with all Windows device searches (whether by… Continue reading

  • Wrapping up 2020

    I haven’t posted as much as I would have liked this year, because “reasons” but I thought I would put together a short post to wrap up some of the things that have been going on behind the scenes. 32feet… Continue reading