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martinohanlon / BlueDot

A zero boiler plate bluetooth remote
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Send connection request from BluetoothServer side as well #178

Closed ada-lovelace-f5 closed 2 years ago

ada-lovelace-f5 commented 2 years ago

Describe the feature you'd like I was working on building an emulator and the BlueDot project has been immensely useful and worked right out flawlessly.

However, I faced a situation where my emulator was running the BluetoothServer and needed to send an SPP connection to the client Android device. I looked around in the code as well to see if something could be done in similar lines of BluetoothClinet.connect(). Unfortunately, I failed.

I wanted to ask the community and the devs if this would be a feature/enhancement you would find interesting/useful to be included in the project.

Looking forward to your comments.

Thanks team, you are life saver for me.

martinohanlon commented 2 years ago

A client socket (which is what the android app is) cannot accept an incoming connection. This isn't a limitation with the BluetoothClient class it is just how sockets work.

To accept a connection the android app would have to be running a server socket and be waiting for a connection.

ada-lovelace-f5 commented 2 years ago

@martinohanlon Thank you for your insightful comments. I have understood the way it works much better thanks to you. I am closing this issue with your comments as closing remarks.

Thanks for all the amazing work you have done for the community.