Can you obtain WiFi settings from iOS and pass it to a BLE device (similar to Withings)?
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The Withings iOS app has the ability to obtain your wifi settings and pass it to the body scale via Classic Bluetooth (see screenshot below). From what I learnt it's a feature only available through the MFi program, which the Withings Scale is.

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I'm building an app that talks to external BLE devices. Since MFi is not required for BLE devices, I'm wondering if there's a way to do the same thing with CoreBluetooth or other frameworks?

From Apple's MFi FAQ page:

"Accessories which connect to an Apple device using only Bluetooth Low Energy/BTLE/Bluetooth 4.0 or standard Bluetooth profiles supported by iOS are not part of the MFi Program."


Related question on ClassicBluetooth / MFi:

Can you pass WiFi settings from an iOS device to an ExternalAccessory object?

Sun answered 16/4, 2014 at 15:34 Comment(2)
Hi Joseph, were you able to figure out an answer for this? I'm interested in doing similar things for a BLE device as well.Softpedal
No, unfortunately. As far as I know MFi is the only way :(Sun

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