iOS Question Zebra RFD8500 - Bluetooth - ZETI

[Gijsen]

I need to write an application to pair an ios device with the zebra rfd8500 rfid scanner.
The scanner has bluetooth and Apple IAP2/MFI certification.
(https://www.zebra.com/content/dam/z...er/spec-sheet/RFD8500-Specification-Sheet.pdf)

I've read on this forum that there is only a BLE library for B4I available, but also found this thread suggesting that communication over bluetooth is possible.
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...ection-made-by-native-code.49773/#post-310851

I need to read and write to the device in order to be able to use the ZETI commands, which are basically text strings written to the device over.

Does anybody have an idea how to proceed ?
There is also an sdk available for Ios but that would mean wrinting a wrapper and I don't have any real experience with Xcode yet

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[Erel]

Can you post a link to the SDK?

 

[Gijsen]

Can you post a link to the SDK?

https://portal.motorolasolutions.co...+BarCode+Scanners/RFID+Products/RFD8500_US-EN

There is a manual, SDK download and sample application in XCode.

 

[Erel]

The relevant documentation is here: https://atgsupportcentral.motorolasolutions.com/content/emb/docs/manuals/MN001834A02a.pdf

It will require wrapping their SDK. I'm afraid that it will be difficult to implement without the scanner as it is not a simple SDK.

 

[Gijsen]

I was afraid of that answer
It also doesn't support keyboard input like most other scanners do.

Is there a possibility to talk through bluetooth with the scanner ? Then I don't need to use the SDK but can use the ZETI commands.

In other threads you referred to the native code added to the b4i project to somehow make a start for the communication.
Or if that is impossible I might be better of buying and Android device, quad lock case, ... and move from ios to android.

 

[Erel]

It will be much simpler to implement a classic Bluetooth solution in Android.