FloBLE pairing troubleshoot

[JackParticipant]

Hi everyone,

My company has just purchased a FloBLE reader. However I don’t understand how to use it with my iPhone/iPad: I expected to connect it through bluetooth, yet nothing appears in my bluetooth devices list.
How should I connect my FloBLE with my iPhone? I did not found any pairing button.

Thanks in advance!
Cheers

[RichardKeymaster]

Hi Jack, although the FloBLE operates over the standard Bluetooth Low Energy interface it requires an App to properly read NFC tags. You can download our Flomio SDK from here to get started with developing an iOS App of your own with it. If you’d like to simply test out the FloBLE reading functionality we can send you an Sample App that we have developed to test the Flomio SDK. I will need you Apple ID to add you to our Beta distribution list via TestFlight. You can send that to info at flomio dot com.

thanks,
Richard

[JackParticipant]

Hi Richard,

Thank you for your response.
Unfortunately, I can’t make my app work with flomio BLE either.

I did try to follow README instructions but can’t get nothing more than “cc – starting scan” in my console logs. None of the ReaderManagerDelegate methods are called.

Here what I did:

_readerManager = [[ReaderManager alloc] init];
_readerManager.isFloBLEEnabled = @YES; // Enable or Disable FloBLE as Needed
_readerManager.isFlojackEnabled = @NO; // Enable or Disable Flojack as Needed
_readerManager.delegate = self;

- (void)floReaderManager:(ReaderManager *)floReaderManager didHaveStatus:(NSInteger)statusCode {
        NSLog(@"didHaveStatus");
}

...

Trying to make myself delegate of CBCentralManager and calling scanForPeripheralsWithServices:options:` did not work either.

What do I need to do so that I can scan a tag with Flomio BLE?

Cheers
Jack

[JackParticipant]

Ok, I downloaded latest version of SDK (1.9.3) and it is still not working.

ReaderManager *sharedManager = [ReaderManager sharedManager];
sharedManager.delegate = self;

[sharedManager setDeviceType:kACSBT];
[sharedManager startReaders];

Best thing I got was “discovered peripheral ACR1255U-J1-000199 <__NSConcreteUUID 0x17e90d60”, but it nevers connects to the device after.
So I downloaded code from https://github.com/flomio/flomio_ios and was able to connect to FloBLE device:

– “didConnectPeripheral peripheral ACR1255U-J1-000199”
– “didDiscoverServices peripheral ACR1255U-J1-000199”

However nothing happens when approaching a NFC tag from my FloBLE device. What is missing?

Cheers

[RichardKeymaster]

Hi Jack, we seemed to have introduced a bug in the v1.9 SDK release with relation to the FloBLE operation that we’re still trying to resolve. We estimate that it will take until Friday, February 5th 10pm EST to resolve. I will post an update at that time.

thanks for your patience.
Richard

[JackParticipant]

Hi Richard,

One small step forward! Now I get those log into my debug console:
– “Peripheral Connected”
– “Services Discovered”

Great! However as soon as the services are discovered, app crashes… Seems like ther’re still something not working into that SDK. Unfortunately there’s nothing relevant into the stacktrace, except [CBPeripheral handleServicesDiscovered:]

I really wonder if you are making tests on it. 4 minor corrective versions in 1 week seems a lot to me.

Cheers

[BorisMember]

Hello Jack,

This is the link for the new SDK version (1.9 Build 8).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y5qloadwievtjp4/FlomioSDK.zip?dl=0

Please give it a try and let me know if you have any other question.

Thanks,

Boris

[JackParticipant]

Hello Boris,

Still not working. Peripheral attachment is successful but I get a crash:

[ABTAcr1255uj1Reader checksumFromBuffer:length:]: unrecognized selector

Thks,
Jack

[RichardKeymaster]

Hi Jack, can you share your testing procedure in order to understand how and when the crash occurs? Also, have you tried our Flomio Testing App? if you send us your Apple ID to info@flomio.com along with your order number, we can add you as an External Tester.

thanks,
Richard

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