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Connect to BLE device and send/read data via NSNetService on iOS 7

I have an iPhone app which communicates with external device via NSNetService. Now I want to add support for bluetooth. So I would like to discover and connect to device via bluetooth (BLE) and when connected I would like to send/receive data via NSNetService, so I reuse existing code...

Is this possible on iOS7+? Any example/hint would be much appreciated.

Solution

  • NSNetService uses TCP/IP and multicast DNS. Bluetooth Low Energy does not implement a TCP/IP network and so NSNetService cannot be applied to BLE connections.