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Questions tagged [ios]

For questions regarding the use of Apple's iOS operating system in an IoT environment

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How do I disable phone ringing from my Tile?

When a Tile tracker is paired with a phone, double tapping a button on the Tile will make the phone ring. This happens even if the phone is on silent mode. I’ve accidentally rung my iPhone at work multiple times, disturbing the people around me. I…
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Controlling one device using Alexa and Siri at the same time?

Can I have one device set up with HomeKit and Alexa at the same time e.g. a motion sensor, or a smart plug? I must stress I am asking whether it is possible to set up the device with the two services at the same time.
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BLE only partially connected in iPhone?

I am trying to use BLE to send strings of data from a CSR8675 chip to an iPhone I am having problems pairing the chip with the iPhone for BLE communication, and need some ideas on how to proceed with troubleshooting Normally if a bluetooth…
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Near real-time LAN device status without polling

I must develop an iPhone app to monitor a device. The device is a boat light control system. Using the iPhone app I can control lights on/off. Lights can be turned on/off from the device touchscreen or using the iPhone app. It's important that the…
Fabiano Taioli
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Using Raspberry Pi as USB bridge

I wanted to use my Raspberry Pi as USB bridge between multiple devices. We can assume that I want to connect my iPad which has POS software on it to my thermal printer. Most of star or Epson thermal printers can be recognized by iOS since they have…
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How to setup time alarm as a silent vibration?

I've bought a smart bracelet (ID115 by LETSCOM) for its silent alarms as advertised: Wake you up peacefully with a silent alarm. Alarm Alert: Set silent alarms on the tracker to wake you up without disturbing your family. However, when setup Alarm…
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Alexa App on Iphone 4 / IOS 7.1.2 - Can't find "alexa" button

I have an old iphone 4 that I want to use via wifi in my car to use alexa to play spotify. I installed the alexa app from the app store. Because the last version of IOS for the iphone 4 is version 7.1.2, the app store prompted me to download the…
Kallen Web Design
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What are the best / recommended approach for communicating or sending message between iOS/Android app to hardware / Raspberry Pi?

I want to have a hardware where it will send an occasional message or notifications to the mobile app. For example, when the hardware camera is now low on battery it should send a notification to the mobile app that it is now low on battery. I am…
Lawrence Gimenez
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iRobot vacuum cleaner wakes me up in the middle of the night because it starts vacuuming or annoying me with voice messages

I have two iRobot products Roomba e5 Braava jet m6 Both are connected to WLAN (but internet access is blocked) and I have the iRobot app on my iPhone. With "Braava jet m6" I have never had problems with it starting to emit audio messages on its…
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How would I make a wifi alarm clock?

I was just wondering how I would create a completely custom wifi alarm clock, what are the things I would need in terms of IoT? I would want to control it via a custom built ios app. I am trying to model it based of the lifx system. I do know I…
Amman Ahmed
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Can I run Unity AR on a single board computer instead of a smartphone?

Unity AR targets to Android and iOS. Are there single board devices that will run the custom apps created as if the device was a cellphone? The device does not have to make calls, just run the application build with no adjustments. The single board…
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How can you send location based push notifications to all android/ios devices that enter range of an IOT device

I would like to send a location based push notification to all devices that enter a range of some kind of IOT device. for example I would have a device which sends push notifications to any phone that enters range of the device. Similar to location…
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