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Bluetooth Low Energy library for Flutter with support for simulating peripherals
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manufacturerData is empty when BLE packet is a Beacon #470

Closed isaiahtaylorhh closed 4 years ago

isaiahtaylorhh commented 4 years ago

Hello,

When scanning a BLE device that has the Beacon metadata (adding an Apple-specific ID to the manufacturer data followed by a proximity UUID), I get a scan result, but everything is nulled out. There is no manufacturerData.

mikolak commented 4 years ago

iOS treats iBeacon differently AFAIK (CoreLocation instead of CoreBluetooth).

There are dedicated libraries for working with beacons: https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_beacon https://pub.dev/packages/beacons

I don't know them and haven't used them, so I can't really recommend anything to you. Might be be worth giving it a shot though.

Does the issue occur on Android as well?

isaiahtaylorhh commented 4 years ago

@mikolak you are correct, on more research it appears that iOS sanitizes packets that have iBeacon bits in them.