Does continuity work over ethernet?

[PilotTiny]

Hi all, I have my iPhone on iOS 8 beta 4 connected to my WiFi and my *cough* Hackintosh *cough* running the Public beta of Yosemite lol . My question is, can I make calls and receive texts over ethernet, as my Hackintosh is not wireless.

All the best,

Ashley

 

[scaredpoet]

A big component of Continuity is Bluetooth LE, not so much Wifi. So, your Hackintosh will need to have a Bluetooth LE module. And Yosemite will need to be fooled into a thinking it's a built-in Bluetooth module on a legitimate Mac, as apparently external USB modules don't cut it.

 

[Planey28]

A big component of Continuity is Bluetooth LE, not so much Wifi. So, your Hackintosh will need to have a Bluetooth LE module. And Yosemite will need to be fooled into a thinking it's a built-in Bluetooth module on a legitimate Mac, as apparently external USB modules don't cut it.

That's handoff, not continuity (which the SMS and phone relay features are part of).

I can't test it myself however as far as I'm aware it just requires your phone and mac to be on the same network, so it should work.

 

[nexus4life]

I'd be interested to know if you end up getting it working. I have a hackintosh as well that I wouldn't mind getting working as well.

 

[mmomega]

My iMac is connected Ethernet only with WiFi disabled and I can make and receive calls from it just fine.
and by just fine I mean it works as well as it can at this point in the development.

Also I can attest that Bluetooth doesn't have anything to do with phone calls coming in to the computer or other iOS devices because I have been at work, my wife will call me and my iPad at home will start ringing, in fact every computer and iOS device I have across the house will play my ringtone when a call comes in so I've had to disable this on everything except my main desktop.

 

[PilotTiny]

I'd be interested to know if you end up getting it working. I have a hackintosh as well that I wouldn't mind getting working as well.

I managed to get it to work, however I cannot get my Mic to work with it, which is very annoying. If I call someone, or they call me though, I can answer it and hear them.