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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 the documentation for 32feet.NET combined with the other libraries I had at the time:- Pontoon […]
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, along with Apple HomeKit support for Bluetooth devices (even if you don’t have an Apple […]
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 had to replace the Xamarin.Essentials reference with the new Microsoft.Maui.Essentials package. That change was very […]
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 into the code and the 3.5 code was doing an additional check – calling BluetoothGetRadioInfo […]
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 library using the newer WinRT APIs in order to support consistent functionality for apps running […]
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 the library was not compatible with later versions. Now it will run on Windows 10 […]
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 interval, latency and link timeout. If these seem a bit complex to set individually there […]
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 to analyse packets from Android using Wireshark and now we can view activity between Windows […]
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 Picker or programmatically with DeviceInformation.FindAllAsync) you receive a DeviceInformation which contains the name and unique […]
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 Back in January I announced a re-write of 32feet.NET. The library for Bluetooth Classic has […]
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