iOS nRF Toolbox tx/rx characteristic?

RE: iOS nRF Toolbox tx/rx characteristic?

nar0909 — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 05:55:10 GMT

Thanks mate. Really detailed and clear. Appreciate your response.

RE: iOS nRF Toolbox tx/rx characteristic?

Mostafa Berg — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 09:24:34 GMT

I'll update my answer with that info as it's too long for a comment!

RE: iOS nRF Toolbox tx/rx characteristic?

nar0909 — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:14:16 GMT

Hi Mostafa, Thanks for your response. I was wondering which statement I should be using if I wanted to read and write to the nrf51822 BLE in each view controller scene? Can you please advice if I use the same NORBluetoothManager in all my view controller scenes. Can I do that? Thanks nar

RE: iOS nRF Toolbox tx/rx characteristic?

Mostafa Berg — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:02:30 GMT

Good evening nar0909 !

If you head towards this link, you'll see the UART handling is done in the BluetoothManager class

if you have any more questions just ask :), hope this helps

Update: Added info to show actual usage for reading and writing

To write, simply convert your string to bytes as we do here.

Then use the method writeValue(...) on the target CBPeripheral, an example can be seen here

When it comes to reading, you'll receive changes as notifications that will call the target CBPeripheral's didUpdateValue(...), this method can be found here

You will receive the data as bytes and you are responsible to convert them back to a String, you can see how we do that here

You may use the BluetoothManager class directly to do that, and access it from all the views that you require, but I would recommend to reimplement it by hand to get a really good understanding on how the whole service works. BluetoothManager is there only as an example reference and might be a bit too much or over complicate things depending on the solution you're working on. but feel free to use it as it is ofcourse.