Applications that use BLE do not discover and connect with BLE peripherals

Glenn Engel

• April 22, 2023 03:36

Using latest build 2023-03-20  NovaAir2 and 2023-03-21 on NovaAirC.

Would love to use your Boox devices for applications that use Bluetooth but it appears it is somehow incompatible with the popular react-native-ble-manager library.  Apps cannot discover and connect with any BLE devices from within the app.  The built-in Bluetooth Settings app can discover devices but play store apps themselves cannot.

This library is used by hundreds of BLE applications but unfortunately it is not compatible with Boox while it is otherwise compatible with virtually every other android phone and tablet.

Please look into fixing whatever is missing to support this library.

 

The library: https://github.com/innoveit/react-native-ble-manager

 

To test with the library:

 

git clone https://github.com/innoveit/react-native-ble-manager.git

cd react-native-ble-manager/example

yarn install

yarn android

 

The Boox is a great device, it would be even better if it supported apps that use BLE devices.

 

Regards,

 

Glenn

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  Glenn Engel

  • May 18, 2023 04:59

  I found a workaround.  It seems that even though the app permissions had enabled location the 'system' location permission was disabled.  To enable system level location, pull down from top to see quick settings and swipe to the second settings page.  Enable location and BLE will work as expected.

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  Arkarell

  • May 22, 2023 12:31

  Thanks for the tips and the link to the BLE manager repo. It could be usefull for me or others

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