Introduction
Welcome to IPWorks BLE, a Bluetooth Low Energy developer suite providing straightforward access to BLE operations. The BLEClient class provides a simple but flexible BLE GATT client implementation, making it easy to work with the services, characteristics, and descriptors exposed by BLE GATT servers on BLE devices. The classes are fast, robust, and reliable - consuming minimal resources while remaining thread-safe on critical members.
Windows Notes:
Please note that the BLE classes are only supported by Windows 10 Creator's Update (10.0.15063.0) and later.
The Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable is also required to use IPWorks BLE. A 32-bit program requires the x86 redistributable, and a 64-bit program requires the x64 redistributable. You can download them from Microsoft's website here, under "Other Tools, Frameworks, and Redistributables": https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
Android Notes:
The BLE classes require an Android API level of 21 or higher.
Note that on Android, even when pairing is not explicitly enabled in the class, the operating system may automatically perform pairing as it deems appropriate.
iOS/macOS Notes:
The BLE classes have the following operating system requirements:
- iOS 5.0+
- iPadOS 5.0+
- Mac Catalyst 13.0+
- macOS 10.10+
Linux Notes:
On Linux, the BLE classes rely on BlueZ and DBus. These packages must be installed in order to use the classes. Many Linux distributions come with BlueZ and DBus pre-installed.
| BLEClient | An easy-to-use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) GATT Client class. |
| BLEServer | An easy-to-use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) GATT Server class. |
Additional Information
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