I want to know if it is possible to list Bluetooth LE devices in Windows Phone 8? The documentation comes up with a note that says that only paired devices could be listed.
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Windows Phone really starts to freakin' me out. Every thing is hidden from the developer, like RFID, available WLAN's and so on. Sry but this had to be.
Bluetooth LE support just came to some Lumia devices recently, so there are no public APIs available yet. See here for some details.
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I am creating a mobile application that can detect iBeacons and I am confused which windows devices support that. I already checked that it's possible in Windows 10 but somewhere I read that it's also possible for Windows 8.1.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to detect beacons with Windows Phone 8.x because the OS has no built-in beacon support and does not allow apps to access raw Bluetooth LE scan results.
You can read more info about this here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30603394/1461050
How can I create an iBeacon on a windows 7 PC with Smart Bluetooth 4.0 integrated with the Wi-Fi, I.e not a separate dongle. I'd rather not look at other OS's as the device also has to run an Adobe air application at the same time.
Thanks
Mike
Sorry, but you cannot natively make a Bluetooth LE-equipped Windows 7/8/8.1 computer broadcast as an iBeacon. The operating system is limited in its BLE support to allowing third party apps to work with a limited number of BLE profiles. More details are available here in this question about Windows phone, but the info also applies to the desktop Windows OS:
iBeacon support for Windows Phone devices. Support is expected to be added in Windows 10 in late 2015.
Until then, your options are limited to a Linux VM or to a hardware dongle with native iBeacon support.
As David pointed out, there is no API available for working with iBeacons until Windows 10.
If you don't need any other Bluetooth connectivity, you can replace the Bluetooth driver with a libusb driver and use your own Bluetooth stack which adds support for iBeacon. You can check out open-source libraries like BlueZ and btstack and make the HCI layer work. On top of that you can implement/port the BLE advertisement and discovery HCI commands and you have all you need for working with iBeacons.
I am looking to implement the use of a Bluetooth 4.0 Smart Ready device (Polar H6/H7 Heart Rate Sensors) in my application. I am forced to target Windows 7 OS. However, I'm only seeing Windows 8 support for Smart Ready devices. I will not be able to upgrade clients to windows 8 in order to use these devices.
The first problem I found is that Windows 7 does not even see the device in order to pair with it. This might be the dongle I'm using. I have tried 2 different ones. The first is a CSR V4.0 (I'm not sure the actual model number). The second is StarTech USBBT1EDR4. Both seem to be using a CSR chipsets. Maybe I should try a different chipset based dongle? Such as Broadcom or TI?
I do see and can pair with the device with my Windows 8.1 Surface Pro.
Is there no way to get Bluetooth Smart implementation for Windows 7 OS platform?
I've recently faced the same problems! I need to run an application in o older version of windows (win xp) and I cannot find any support to that with my dongle (one based in broadcom bcm20702).
What I've found is that windows prior to windows 8, has no bluetooth low energy support, so you would not be able to use the windows bluetoth stack, and broadcom doesn't have a sdk for BLE (I've contacted them, and they said it).
So I've looked for other alternatives and BlueGiga bluetooth 4.0 dongle has a C SDK that you can use to develop your applications in Windows XP and 7. In that page (after register) you can find all the documentation you need.
I've also found a C# Wrapper and a Java Wrapper to its API.
Hope it can help.
[EDIT] : just received my dongle, tried it with win XP and it worked. Guess this is a solution for you also!
Strange thing is, I installed windows 10 and I could use bluetooth smart from my Logitech MX master mouse, but I had to go back to windows 7 because of display drivers and now it does not support it anymore. Windows 7 does not support smart bluetooth. It's just a driver I would presume, but Logitech does not provide it.
I find it realy strange that the old bluetooth device in my laptop worked fine with bluetooth smart devices in Windows 10 but in windows 7 it can only connect to plain old bluetooth devices.
I recently acquired a Bluetooth headset (Philips SHB9100) for my smartphone, but also wanted to use it with my Windows 7 PC, so I bought a cheap USB Bluetooth adapter without noticing it was a v2.0 adapter, while the headset is v2.1 + EDR.
The USB Adapter installed correctly on Windows 7, and I am able to discover my headset, but when they try to pair, an ugly Error 0x80004005 appears, never asking me for a PIN.
After some googling, and founding many people had this pairing problem, I read that the major improvement in Bluetooth v2.1 is SSP, which permits pairing without the need to enter a PIN, and also that Windows 7 chooses the "best pairing mechanism" automatically. And so I started to suspect that this is what's happening:
Windows discovers a SSP capable device.
Windows tries to pair with that device using SSP.
The USB Adapter, being v2.0, is unable to permit pairing with the headset via SSP.
Windows does it's best showing a 0x80004005 error.
I searched for a v2.1 or superior USB Bluetooth Adapter in my city but couldn't find any (I'm from La Plata, Argentina) and even though I think I'll end buying one, I'd like to make this work, or at least know for sure why the devices aren't pairing.
And so my question is (and I swear I did some more googling before asking here):
Can I force Windows to try a legacy pairing with my headset?
Any info on the subject is welcome.
Thanks!
I recently faced a similar issue and after a lot of trial and error together with research, I finally fint a compatible driver. I downloaded a few drivers from the intel site and tried it with each one of them. Finally I was able to fix my issues with the driver below.
https://communities.intel.com/thread/103579
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/26191
This link can also help with the issue, worth sharing.
https://superuser.com/questions/471767/bluetooth-headset-pairs-and-appears-in-sound-devices-but-shows-as-disconnected
I want to develop app for windows phone but I got a big problem, my laptop can't run the emulator, after checking the requirements I know that my vga driver doesn't support it. My question is, are there any alternative for windows phone emulator instead of the officially one from Microsoft? Or any other way to tweak it to be run on my laptop? Thanks
From my understanding there isn't any other windows phone emulators. If you can get a hold of a windows phone 7 it would be possible to test on that. You can try to contact a Microsoft windows phone evangelist in your area, the one in my area helped me get a phone to test on.
I am not sure about tweakinging your laptop to get the emulator to work. Is your vga driver up to date? If not maybe try to update it. I know it takes quite a bit of computer power to run the emulator smoothly.
If you wanted you can try to register for a virtual lab, here you remote into a windows machine and are able to build and test on the remote machine, but it is time limted and is usually for a class to learn about it. https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032485600&%3bculture=en-US