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Bluetooth Serial

This plugin enables serial communication over Bluetooth. It was written for communicating between Android or iOS and an Arduino (not Android to Android or iOS to iOS).

https://github.com/don/BluetoothSerial

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Installation#

$ npm install cordova-plugin-bluetooth-serial
$ npm install @ionic-native/bluetooth-serial
$ ionic cap sync

Supported Platforms#

  • Android
  • iOS
  • Windows Phone 8

Usage#

React#

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Angular#

import { BluetoothSerial } from '@ionic-native/bluetooth-serial/ngx';
constructor(private bluetoothSerial: BluetoothSerial) { }
// Write a string
this.bluetoothSerial.write('hello world').then(success, failure);
// Array of int or bytes
this.bluetoothSerial.write([186, 220, 222]).then(success, failure);
// Typed Array
var data = new Uint8Array(4);
data[0] = 0x41;
data[1] = 0x42;
data[2] = 0x43;
data[3] = 0x44;
this.bluetoothSerial.write(data).then(success, failure);
// Array Buffer
this.bluetoothSerial.write(data.buffer).then(success, failure);