I´m developing an iOS App using Texas Instruments Launchpad CC3200. But the awesome SmartConfig feature is only working for 2,4Ghz WiFi Network connections.
Users trying to do SmartConfig on hybrid or 5Ghz only WiFi connections are failing.
Does anybody know if it is possible to programmatically determine what type of WiFi connection (2,4Ghz or 5Ghz) an iOS device currently has?
Unfortunately, this is not possible unless your device is jailbroken or if you have access to private headers in the API.
The only thing you can do is tell the difference between cellular and WiFi connection using the Reachability class by Apple. The networking tools are very limited in this case.
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I need to create an app read info from the ODB2 device installed in a car and show the data to the user but in a "funny" way. So I need to read the data and connect the phone to internet simultaneously.
I found this questions:How to communicate with OBD II using bluetooth or wifi using iphone , but is from 2014, maybe now there is something.
I've been looking for an ODB2 device that can communicates with iOS via Bluetooth.
I found a couple of devices that can do the trick (like viecar or bluedriver), but using their own apps. Also, I found some devices that can talk with iOS via WiFi, but it would be annoying to be connecting your device to WiFi, then turning off WiFi and using mobile data again...
So my questions is:
Is it there any way to communicates via bluetooth with an ODB2 devices? Or better said, is it there any ODB2 device that can be used via Bluetooth with iOS?
Our guys in the field use equipment that have wifi and Bluetooth connectivity. One of our users has been using a non-iPhone (I guess Android) to transfer files between his phone and the equipment through Bluetooth. However, in switching our users to iPhones to use other enterprise apps we have discovered what some of you already know: iOS's Bluetooth connectivity is severely limited (i.e. no SPP protocol).
The equipment also communicates via wifi, so I was wondering if it's possible to create an app using iOS Multipeer connectivity to solve the Bluetooth problem. All I am finding about this, though, doesn't show anything but phone-to-phone multipeer connections, and not phone-to-machine multipeer connections.
At this point I know nothing about how the field equipment works; that's something I'll have to learn if we decide to pursue this. But assuming that it is capable of discovering wifi networks, would it be able to see the iPhone's network without needing any special software?
Or would I be wasting my time trying to figure this out?
Thanks!
If the equipment is using Bluetooth SPP then unless it is MFi certified you can pretty much forget about connecting to it from iOS. Multipeer connectivity won't do it, that's for sure.
WiFi may be a possibility - you need to get the iPhone and the equipment on the same WiFi network - you can't do this via an app though - you would need to use the WiFi settings in iOS - You will need to learn more about the equipment to see if that is possible.
Short answer: no. Only iOS 7.0+ or MacOS Yosemite+
MultipeerConnectivity is a framework for iOS and Mac OS. To send data using it, you need both devices to have iOS or MacOS with MultipeerConnectivity. You don't have any network-related parameters like "I prefer using bluetooth or wi-fi", it was designed to "just work out of box with simple goal - discover and connect other devices with MultipeerConnectivity.
It means that you can't send data from iPhone with MC to Android or Symbian or old iPhone with iOS <7 etc.
Before iOS7 you could use GameKit, but the logic is the same: both peers need to use GameKit.
If your custom equipment does not have iOS - you need to use lower-level API, and your options include generic Bonjour (NSNetService on iOS device and something Bonjour-compatible on custom device) or CoreBluetooth (obviously bluetooth-only, no wi-fi peer-to-peer) on the lowest level, using sockets and so on.
I've been at this for a few days now, and can't seem to find a solution. I want to create a peer to peer network over wifi on iOS. All open source code seems to be supporting running a server or being a client, but there's no code built to support being both - a peer. Is anybody aware of a way I can do this?
iOS 7 adds the Multipeer Connectivity Framework for exactly this purpose.
Have you thought of using Apple's GameKit framework? I've used it in the past for some simple communication between devices. It's really simple and can get you out of the gate quickly. This looks like a good tutorial.
I think Open Peer is the right solution. It provides real direct peer-to-peer connection between devices without the need of a centralised server. Check out this introductory video.
You cannot create a wi-fi network programmatically in iOS using current APIs. GameKit offers some APIs to do so over bluetooth however.
If you wish to implement a custom solution using CocoaHTTPServer, be aware that you will still not be able to create a direct wi-fi connection, you will simply be able to connect devices on the same (pre-existing) wi-fi network.
Ad-hoc peer to peer Wi-Fi (such as 802.11s) in iOS is still a few years off. Maybe iOSX ;)
iOS supports the Multipeer Connectivity framework which enables iOS devices to talk to each other over Bluetooth, infrastructure (with a router) WiFi, or P2P.
It does not, however, provide a way to explicitly use P2P. There is a layer of abstraction away from how any of a device's peers (other iOS devices) are connected, and it does not currently allow for non-iOS devices to be connected.
I'm searching a new way to sync data between iOS devices connected to the same Wi-fi network.
My app uses iCloud to sync its CoreData UIManagedDocument, but iCloud latency is too big for my goals.
Is there some way to connect iOS devices in the same Wi-Fi network with the iOS SDK? Any ideas?
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Any two IP-capable devices can connect to each other using BSD sockets - I've written an Objective-C wrapper to facilitate networking operations like this - here it is.
From iOS 7, you should look into the Multipeer Connectivity Framework. It allows connections between iOS devices on the same Wi-Fi network or Bluetooth personal area network, and the API is extremely simple to use.
You can use Gamekit to connect with both WiFi and Bluetooth and send data back and forth.
There's an excellent but lengthy tutorial here http://www.raywenderlich.com/12735/how-to-make-a-simple-playing-card-game-with-multiplayer-and-bluetooth-part-1
you should be able to pick out all the connectivity bits.
Is Wi-Fi Direct connection possible within iOS devices and among Wi-Fi Direct enabled devices?
The objective is to enable communication between an iOS device and another device (not necessarily another iOS device. It could be Android, Mac, PC) without the presence of any controllers. (WAPs).
iOS devices can connect to an ad-hoc network, and if they do so they will have full wireless network capabilities. The limitation is with creating an ad-hoc network from the device itself, which is not allowed/not possible.
An alternative would be to use the GameKit/Game Center API which uses Bluetooth to create a network between iOS devices. This would obviously include the more limited range of Bluetooth vs Wifi, as well as the constraints of Apple's SDK.
More information on Game Center in iOS 6 is available here: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/GameKit_Guide/Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008304
I have been looking into this recently and from my research,(please see "Device to device communication with WiFi Direct: Overview and experimentation" by Daniel Camps-Mur,....) the WiFi Direct does NOT create ad-hoc network. It's actually creating a WiFi infrastructure network where one party takes the role of AP (soft-AP). Once this established, the network works much like a normal WiFi network. Do we agree on this?
Given this is the fact, Apple iPhone should be able to connect to WiFi Direct device that is already set up as AP. I haven't check this though.
Having said this, How can you get an Android phone like Samsung Galaxy S3 or S4 to act as AP? there is nothing in the settings as far as I know. If you connect two such devices, one of them will take the role of AP. Now, iPhone will detect the established network, but when trying to connect to that, will be asked for WPA password. Good luck finding it! Cus you can't get it from the phone. I read somewhere that a file in Samsung Galaxy called WPA_Suppliciant.conf has the WPA key in it but I didn't see it there.
I believe if you could find WPA password, you can get the iPhone to easily connect.
iOS devices do not support Wi-Fi Direct functionality, they do not have WFD (Wi-Fi Direct) group creation or role negotiation (P2P Group Owner or Group Client) support.
During a normal WFD connection one of the 2 devices takes role of Group Owner (Soft-AP) allowing other device to connect as a Group Client.
iOS has support for tethering which is normally know as Personal Hotspot option in Settings. It can be used for communication between iOS and non-iOS devices. For example,
Application ShareIt uses similar way to connect iOS to non-iOS devices by creating a temporary Hotspot and in the non-iOS device and promts iOS user to go to Wi-Fi screen and connect manually. This is normally recommended when a common Wi-Fi network is not present.