macOS Turning macbook into a discoverable bluetooth device

[Dre2000lbs]

Hey, I've been looking through the lousy bluetooth documentation from apple's developer site so now i'm running to the forums.

I want to make my macbook a bluetooth device that is discoverable by other computers. In other words, it broadcasts itself just like a bluetooth mouse would. Then computers can scan for it as a device and begin the pairing process.

I feel this is possible, but Mac's Bluetooth APIs may not support it. Am I right about all this? Can you provide any guidance?

Thanks

 

[robbieduncan]

I'm not sure your app can do that: it being discoverable for pairing is a user choice not an application choice. It can be turned on/off by the user using the preferences provided. You could potentially use AppleScript to do that...

You can make a bluetooth RFCOMM server that sits waiting for connections from devices. I did this for my little Car-100 control program...

 

[Dre2000lbs]

The assumption is that the computer is left in a discoverable mode. I'm sure RFCOMM server is what i'm looking for. How did you go about that?

 

[robbieduncan]

You should be able to download the source to the app from this link

 

[Dre2000lbs]

Thanks for the link.

I'm going to look through it soon (been busy lately).

It sounds like your program does the opposite that I'll like my program to do. I want my laptop to become a device ( like a bluetooth mouse for example ) to connect to a server.

You know a easy way of doing that? So far, I need to create UUIDs and create a plist for some given reason before I can broadcast.