Okay, I'm working on a fun project that has a hurdle where I need to enable Bluetooth audio support for my iOS app.
The hurdle I'm at is that I simply can't even begin to get a list of connected Bluetooth audio devices. Even though my iPhone 5S recognizes my earpiece (a ~3 - 4 year old LG HBM-230, to be precise) and plays audio through it for phone calls, BOTH External Accessory and CoreBluetooth are giving me nothing useful when I query both.
I'm basing my own code off questions & answers I found for both the CoreBluetooth and External Accessory frameworks.
When my code simply tries to "scanForPeripheralsWithServices:nil" for any Bluetooth devices which Settings->Bluetooth say are visible and connected, the below code simply is NOT coming up with a single hit beyond the "CBCentralManagerStatePoweredOn" message in the console.
And this line in my code (with a valid EAAccessoryManager instance)
NSArray * connectedDevices = [self.eAAccessoryManager connectedAccessories];
also comes back with a nil array.
What could I be doing wrong?
B.T.W., I've made this code available as a GitHub project.
@implementation BluetoothManager
+ (BluetoothManager *)sharedInstance
{
static dispatch_once_t pred = 0;
__strong static id _bluetoothMGR = nil;
dispatch_once(&pred, ^{
_bluetoothMGR = [[BluetoothManager alloc] init];
});
return _bluetoothMGR;
}
- (id)init
{
self = [super init];
if(self)
{
dispatch_queue_t centralQueue = dispatch_queue_create("com.yo.mycentral", DISPATCH_QUEUE_SERIAL);
// whether we try this on a queue of "nil" (the main queue) or this separate thread, still not getting results
self.cbManager = [[CBCentralManager alloc] initWithDelegate:self queue:centralQueue options:nil];
}
return self;
}
// this would hit.... if I instantiated this in a storyboard of XIB file
- (void)awakeFromNib
{
if(!self.cbManager)
self.cbManager = [[CBCentralManager alloc] initWithDelegate:self queue:nil options:nil];
}
- (void)centralManager:(CBCentralManager *)central didDiscoverPeripheral:(CBPeripheral *)peripheral advertisementData:(NSDictionary *)advertisementData RSSI:(NSNumber *)RSSI {
NSLog(@"hey I found %@",[advertisementData description]);
}
- (void)centralManager:(CBCentralManager *)central didRetrieveConnectedPeripherals:(NSArray *)peripherals
{
NSLog( @"I retrieved CONNECTED peripherals");
}
-(void)centralManager:(CBCentralManager *)central didRetrievePeripherals:(NSArray *)peripherals{
NSLog(@"This is it!");
}
- (void)centralManagerDidUpdateState:(CBCentralManager *)central{
NSString *messtoshow;
switch (central.state) {
case CBCentralManagerStateUnknown:
{
messtoshow=@"State unknown, update imminent.";
break;
}
case CBCentralManagerStateResetting:
{
messtoshow=@"The connection with the system service was momentarily lost, update imminent.";
break;
}
case CBCentralManagerStateUnsupported:
{
messtoshow=@"The platform doesn't support Bluetooth Low Energy";
break;
}
case CBCentralManagerStateUnauthorized:
{
messtoshow=@"The app is not authorized to use Bluetooth Low Energy";
break;
}
case CBCentralManagerStatePoweredOff:
{
messtoshow=@"Bluetooth is currently powered off.";
break;
}
case CBCentralManagerStatePoweredOn:
{
messtoshow=@"Bluetooth is currently powered on and available to use.";
NSDictionary *options = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], CBCentralManagerScanOptionAllowDuplicatesKey, nil];
[_cbManager scanForPeripheralsWithServices:nil options:options];
break;
}
}
NSLog(@"%@", messtoshow);
}
@end