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fractiousCat
fractiousCat

Reputation: 13

How to send serial data to a mac using the bluetooth serial profile

I'm working on software that must receive and parse serial data sent over an rs232 connection. My macbook (running macOS High Sierra) doesn't have a physical serial port, but it does have a port listed as "Bluetooth-Incoming-Port". To my understanding, data can be sent to this port via bluetooth and received just as if it had been sent over a cable. I would like to send data (ASCII text) from my iphone to this port to test my software, but I can't figure out how to do this - all the tutorials I've found are oriented towards arduino setup.

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bobwki
bobwki

Reputation: 944

Well, it seems you can't, according to this post from Apple forum: iOS support for SPP Bluetooth. Also, this from stackoverflow, which mentions MFi accessories, which is the only "bluetooth classic" support allowed for iPhones.

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