Android or iOS app for IPSP

[Daniel O'Neill]

Hi,

Our application needs to send MQTT messages to AWS from a nrf52840 via a Android/iOS device.

We are currently using Zephyr + IPSP + MQTT to a Ubuntu virtual box for communications.

I can't seem to find any apps for Android/iOS that actually do IPSP. Is there a reason for this?

Is there a better way to achieve our requirement?

Cheers,

Daniel

[Håkon Alseth]

Hi Daniel,

 

 

Our application needs to send MQTT messages to AWS from a nrf52840 via a Android/iOS device.

We are currently using Zephyr + IPSP + MQTT to a Ubuntu virtual box for communications.

I can't seem to find any apps for Android/iOS that actually do IPSP. Is there a reason for this?

IPSP uses a lower layer in the bluetooth LE stack (connection oriented channels) for data transfer. The only use of GAP/GATT is for advertising. When connected, the data transfer will be performed on the L2CAP layer, which most "normal apps" on iOS/Android will be confused about, as it assumes GAP/GATT.

The bridging from BLE to IPv6 is currently only implemented via kernel module bluetooth_6lowpan. While Android is based on the linux kernel, it does require a whole ecosystem in order to run the IPSP properly, which it does not seem to have by-default.

 

Neither Android or iOS does not seem to support this now.

 

Kind regards,

Håkon

[Daniel O'Neill]

Hi Håkon,

Thanks for the quick response. Are you  aware of any roadmap that Android or iOS may include support? 

What is the common method to get mqtt messages from a nRF52 device to aws via Android or iOS?

Do Nordic have any examples (Zephyr preferred) 

Cheers,

Daniel 

[Håkon Alseth]

Hi Daniel,

 

Daniel O'Neill said:

Thanks for the quick response. Are you  aware of any roadmap that Android or iOS may include support? 

Not that I know of, but you'll need to check with the respective communities. Android has been working on 6lowpan, but for IEEE 802.15.4 devices.

 

Daniel O'Neill said:

What is the common method to get mqtt messages from a nRF52 device to aws via Android or iOS?

The only way I know of is to send the mqtt data around a proprietary BLE service, then add aws handling in a app on the phone side.

 

Kind regards,

Håkon