<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Leon S. Ciereszko III via aprssig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" target="_blank">aprssig@tapr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">iThings don’t do Serial Port Protocol over BT.</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>Thats why i said BLE. BLE has a mode that works for serial data transfer, and Apple could not break it and still be BLE standard compliant. SPP support is optional, hence the lack of SPP support in iOS.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">There are various BLE devices and tutorials for connecting them to iThings. They require a (US$100) Apple Developer license in order to load the app onto the iThing.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Still leaves the offline maps issue, though.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div><div class="gmail_signature">-Jason<br>kg4wsv</div>
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