Issue in getting serial number of BLE device iOS

RE: Issue in getting serial number of BLE device iOS

AmbystomaLabs — Tue, 09 May 2017 13:13:21 GMT

I would encourage you to read up on it to confirm, but with Core Location my understanding is no. iBeacons are really meant for proximity marketing. You would need to use the Core Bluetooth Framework. In order to have your beacon's raw data seen by CB you cannot advertise as iBeacon. iBeacon data is suppressed in CB by iOS. For this reason, you might find it easier to not be iBeacon.

RE: Issue in getting serial number of BLE device iOS

Hung Bui — Tue, 09 May 2017 08:53:29 GMT

I guess it has something to do with privacy protection policy on iOS.

Can you create a proprietary service and add your serial number there instead of information service ?

RE: Issue in getting serial number of BLE device iOS

AmbystomaLabs — Mon, 08 May 2017 14:08:26 GMT

Through the iOS API both UUID and MAC ID are restricted and cannot be viewed by an app. I believe the serial number characteristic you refer to is one of these. Also, for iBeacons the raw advertisement data is restricted and cannot be viewed through the core bluetooth framework.

The only thing you can access is the CBUUID which is generated by the OS the first time a device is seen. Ideally, this number will not change on an iOS device and can be used to reference the device. Of course though the CBUUID is different on all iOS devices.