iOS and Bluetooth Low Energy

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I know that there are a lot of restrictions on bluetooth when it comes to iOS. I wanted some more information on Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) and the CoreBluetooth Framework apple provides from iOS 5.0 and greater.

  1. Can i connect ANY Bluetooth LE device to an iOS device using the Core Bluetooth Framework?
  2. Is there any Bluetooth LE device in production,that comes with a three axis accelerometer and a gyro that i could use like a Human Interface device?
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With respect to #2, absolutely! Have a look at the TI CC2540 Mini Dev Kit. – Sedate Alien
Just checked out, but it seems like you need a dongle (which comes with its own software) to communicate with the slave. I was looking at something like this. hillcrestlabs.com/products/downloads/… Basically, the interface should be BT RF and not a USB dongle as i want to write my own software to drive the device. – Sagar
The USB dongle is purely for convenience during your development. The CC2540 chip itself is tiny and can be included in any devices you create. – Sedate Alien

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Sagar, Maybe you can explain more about what you want to do.

Any BT4.0 LE device can connect and communicate with a iOS app using the CoreBluetooth Framework.

The CC2540 dev kit does contain a fob that has accelerometer, it does not have a gyro.

The USB dongle that comes with the kit is for communicating with the fob from a PC/Mac, you do not need it for communicating with the iOS device.