Re: Connect Bluetooth Device

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Rob Moran <Rob.Moran@arm.com> wrote:

> This reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask.
>
>
> Is there a specification for a UA to populate the proposed
> *referringDevice* object?
>

Yes. The Web Bluetooth specification has been updated to include the
refferingDevice object at
https://webbluetoothcg.github.io/web-bluetooth/#dom-bluetooth-referringdevice

Here's a public sketch as well that was used at the time:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jFCTyq84T2fLc8ZhxorTz3u_gCk59hp17EmkFgaDQ2c/edit


> I assume the first implementation will be to securely pass the device from
> physical web to chrome, but has any thought been given to making this
> device injection possible with other applications (a flag when starting
> chrome populated with the device handle, perhaps?). It would also allow
> me to specify a referringDevice in the Bleat project (perhaps as a
> command line switch).
>

> Cheers,
>
>
> Rob
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* François Beaufort 🇫🇷 <fbeaufort@google.com>
> *Sent:* 03 November 2016 08:59
> *To:* David Baier
> *Cc:* public-web-bluetooth@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: Connect Bluetooth Device
>
> It is not yet available sadly.
>
> Once the Permissions API is implemented, you'll be able to retrieve a
> BluetoothDevice instance based on a persistent ID you would have saved
> previously. See an example of this at https://webbluetoothcg.
> github.io/web-bluetooth/#example-permission-api-query
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 5:51 PM, David Baier <dvdbr@live.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Community,
>>
>> I just started developing with Web Bluetooth and everything works fine.
>> But I have one question left so far.
>>
>> Is it possible to connect to a certain bluetooth device automatically?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
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