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Yeah, and they're also not supporting standard Wi-Fi Direct.
Bluetooth Low Energy is not so restricted, though. Maybe we need a
KISS-over-BLE encapsulation...<br>
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Scott<br>
N1VG<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/7/2016 4:51 PM, Eric Grumling via
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<div>Not gonna happen on a non-jailbroken iOS device. Apple’s
Bluetooth implementation specifically omits serial port profile
(SPP). In addition, any device manufacturer would need to join
the Made for Apple (MFI) program, which gets pricy and isn’t
going to be suitable for small scale products. The primary
driver for MFI is so that they can have sample devices to test
in a similar way they test software for the App Store.</div>
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<div>One thing I have done that mostly works is set up a Raspberry
Pi running Direwolf sound modem and aprsc. I got 90% of the way
there, but had issues getting aprsc running properly, and it
fell off the radar. But the plan was to create a WiFi access
point for the iOS device to connect to, get Pocket Packet to
connect to the aprsc server running on the Pi and allow all
traffic to “gate” to and from the iOS device(s). Keeping
everything off the Internet of course. Maps would still be an
issue, but I was more interested in beacons, messages and
bulletins than seeing a map.</div>
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<div>The best solution I’ve found is to buy an old Android phone
running APRSDroid or cheap Windows tablet running APRSICE. Use a
Pi and Direwolf in the configuration listed above but connect to
Direwolf using KISS over IP. Works great and you can do offline
maps, messaging etc. And you save the battery in your iOS
device.</div>
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<div>73</div>
<div>Eric </div>
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Don't think I'm going to pay $20 to get it to transmit
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$12. That's per year. Yet another one you rent, not buy.
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I don't understand why someone doesn't use Bluetooth / BLE
to interface a real TNC. As many radios as iThings have
you'd think there would be a wireless solution.
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Online mapping is always a deal breaker for me.<br
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-Jason<br class="">
kg4wsv<br class="">
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