For iOS application, IOT(Internet of thing) is a new things.and we can connect our device with other hardwares.
My question is , is there any way by which i can connect our existing devices like (Air Conditioner,Other ele. component) IOT only?
Here is one of the best example for connecting and controlling such devices like A.C., TV, etc with your iOS device.
It's Open Source so you can explore more.
IRKit:
http://getirkit.com/en/
(opensource infrared remote controller).
IRKit is a WiFi enabled Open Source Infrared Remote Controller device.
Home electronics with an infrared remote, like air conditioners, TVs, lights can be controlled using iPhone and iPad via IRKit.
IRKit works with IRKit's official app and you can easily create iOS apps to send IR signals to control home electronics using IRKit iOS-SDK .
You can create apps for example that does:
Use location, turns on air conditioner when you arrive near your home.
Press one button to turn off all your home electronics when you leave home.
Connect with Facebook, and automatically change your TV's channel to which your friend is watching.
Hope It will help.
If your component have any types of connectivity which is suitable for iOS devices the you can do this, like:
If your Air Conditioner has bluetooth connectivity and it can handle command like turn on/off or controlling temperature, then you can do it with any kind of device that can communicate with the electrical components.
I used to turn off my computer via internet. There was a process running in my computer that hits an URL, receive JSON data and if it gets shutdown flag yes, it turn itself off. I can set that flag from my mobile. The lacking was I could not turn on.
Edit:
Yes you can, but you have to do a lot of hardware related work. like: Bluetooth Relay Controller. Here is a video.
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I Need to create an iOS application and a PC application, the two need to be able to exchange data over Wi-Fi (either direct or via a wifi router).
The iOS app will act as a remote control for some of the features of the PC app, for instance, if a video is playing on the pc application then the iOS app will have buttons to control playback on the PC such as play, pause, stop etc, when one of these buttons is pressed then I need to send some bytes to the pc over wifi.
My questions are:
how should I go about sending data - Wifi direct or via wifi network that both devices are connected to?
can anyone help with example code to connect or send data to a specific device over wifi for either methods?
to be clear, I don't need help with creating the applications themselves - only the wireless transfer of data between the devices using the Wi-Fi radio whether it be direct or via a router.
The main question: is it possible to initiate a connection/send bytes under iOS over wi-fi to a pc on the same network or via wifi direct?
Help with the method to do this or example code would be helpful.
Can a website help a user communicate with nearby devices via bluetooth/WLAN without downloading software?
User requests that something be done on their device (which could be, for example a wirelessly connected printer or a bluetooth keyboard).
The site, which contains a repository of relevant actions, sends specific instructions for that device to the user's own machine.
Those instructions are then relayed to the correct device (with the user's permission) via the user's device's WLAN or existing bluetooth connection.
Part 3 is what I'm not sure of - is there a mechanism by which a website can contribute to a wireless/bluetooth connection held locally?
It is not possible. User browser can't interact with hardware for wireless networking.
You should force user to install some custom software to do this.
You would have to submit the "commands" first, then have the device make requests to the website server, i.e., check for any pending "commands" for the device, and then process them locally. A website is not "thing" that can directly interface with a hardware device.
I have been using Upnpx library to discover the TV using Upnp protocol.
What I have to do now is to pare my iOS app with the TV as a remote controller.
The first objectives are to take control of the sound volume, move the mouse cursor, browse through web-browsers, etc.
I have tried to google for urn:samsung.com:device:RemoteControlReceiver1 specification but I had a hard time to find useful informations.
Has someone already done this before and could give me directions or the technical specification to control the TV from a remote app ?
Regards,
You could try to use Charles. That way you will be able to sniff your network. Then try to duplicate the functionality in your app.
Just for the people who will face the same issues.
I paired my iOS app to the samsung TV through TCP socket (I used GCDAsyncSocket to handle this) and using the great informations I found here :
http://sc0ty.pl/2012/02/samsung-tv-network-remote-control-protocol/
I would like to develop an (personal) iphone app to use the iPhone as a controller for a small device such as a fan or for example a light bulb. Does anyone know if there is some kind of controllable iphone-dock to use for something like this. And are there some kind of methods to use with such a dock? For example the fan just needs a variable voltage for different rpm.
Thanks in advance,
EAAccessory requires that you become a Apple hardware partner, which is very expensive and not easy (this is why you only see large companies releasing hardware accessories for iOS devices).
There's a few ways around this. The easiest way is to have your app send OSC signals over WIFI to an OSC server. I've set this up before using TouchOSC on the iPhone and an Arduino connected to my desktop via USB. It's not hard at all, but it requires that you have an Arduino connected to a computer; it's not ideal.
Alternatively you can use audio output to send commands over the line output in the iPhone's dock connector, effectively turning the iPhone into a software modem.
Good luck and if you get this figured out, post the code on github. :-D
EAAccessory framework might not be what you want because of the requirement for you to have the license and hardware. You could better implement some sort of small webserver that runs an arduino or something similar. check this out for an example of that. on the arduino, you could just have a 5v relay to control the switch of whatever device and have the other pins of the relay connected to a hot (or cold depending on the relay state) standard 120v plug so you can plug anything into it. here is a good project for arduino controlled relay
for direct serial control, you could do something like this but it would require being jailbroken. i think for a personal app, doing it via wifi would be the best way unless you jailbreak and install the full bluetooth stack where you do not need EAAccessory stuff
Check out EAAccessory Framework. Used to handle external devices.
You could try using an ultrasound detector attached to your device, and playing an audio file at the appropriate frequency etc. on the iPhone.
There are 2 iPhone applications. One application running in the foreground and the other running in the background. Is there any way to get the background application to send data over USB without coming into foreground? Ideally we want to keep the foreground app in the foreground, while the background app process some data. Once the data is processed it will inform the foreground app that the data has been processed.
No it cannot. It cannot even do this without the use of private frameworks, unless you're in the Made for iPhone program. If you are, then your organization will know, based on the documentation made available to you, what you can and cannot access, when and how.
Should you be in the Made for iPhone program, and are unclear as to what you have access to and when, contact the person in your organization who is the technical contact with Apple for this program, they will be able to give you the details.
If the task is started while the app is in the foreground and you call the appropriate beginBackgroundTask/endBackgroundTask methods, you should be able to have it continue running after the app is backgrounded.
Note that access to USB is restricted (see jer's answer) and that there's no officially sanctioned way to communicate between different apps on the same device. Also, you can only buy/download one app at a time in the App Store and I can't see Apple approving an app that required you to download a second app for it to work. So you may have bigger problems to solve first.
It would help significantly if you told us what you actually wanted to achieve. For example, "I want MyApp on the user's phone to communicate with MyApp on the user's computer".
The absolute easiest way is to send data between the phone and a computer is to require that they're both on the same Wi-Fi network. Several iPhone apps incorporate a web server (this was the easiest way of "file sharing" before OS 3.2), and many more iPhone apps connect to a computer running server software.
Your other options, more or less:
Reverse-engineer the Bluetooth side of GameKit and reimplement it on the computer-side. I'm not aware of anyone who's done this. Loosely, I think it's IP over Bluetooth PAN plus some sort of Bluetooth service discovery.
Audio input/output, e.g. the headphone jack or certain pins on the dock connector. I'm not entirely sure how the mic side works (the resistance was a bit high for a carbon mic when I checked), but you might get lucky and find a way to turn it into "line in" or find "line in" pins on the dock connector.
A webcam pointing at the iDevice screen (and the iDevice camera pointing at the computer screen). Ewwwww.
Join the MFi program.