Connecting iOS & Android

to Arduino with Bluetooth

Mobile Philly - November 13, 2013

Presented by Don Coleman / @doncoleman

Bluetooth

Alternatives

• WiFi
• XBee ZigBee
• ZWave
• 433 MHz
• Other 2.4 GHz

Bluetooth

Classic

Bluetooth

Low Energy

Arduino

PhoneGap

Apache Cordova

$ npm install cordova -g

Bluetooth Serial

PhoneGap Plugin

Installing

$ cordova plugin install com.megster.cordova.bluetoothserial				        
                    

Connecting

    var macAddress = "00:00:AA:BB:CC:DD";
    
    var connected = function() {
      // connected, do something
    };
    
    var disconnected = funtion(error) { 
      // disconnected
    };

    bluetoothSerial.connect(macAddress, connected, disconnected);				    
                    

Receiving Data

  var onMessage = function(data) {
    console.log(data);
  };

  bluetoothSerial.subscribe("\n", onMessage, onFailure);
                    

Sending Data

  bluetoothSerial.write("Hello Arduino");
				    

c red, green, blue

c0,0,255\n

iBeacon

CoreLocation

(not CoreBluetooth)

Radius Networks

Demo

• Arduino
• RedBearLabs BLEmini
• Seeed Bluetooth Shield
• Adafruit NeoPixel LED
• Bluetooth Serial Phonegap Plugin
• Reveal.js (for slides)

Thank You

Don Coleman

@doncoleman

don@chariotsolutions.com

http://don.github.io/slides/

Connecting iOS and Android to Arduino with Bluetooth by Don Coleman
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at https://github.com/don/.../2013-11-13-mobilephilly-bluetooth.