Is CoronaCards my only option for communicating with a BlueTooth device using CoronaSDK?

It looks to me like it is.

And I see CoronaCards is going to cost $1000USD per year to develop for iOS and Android, if I’m not mistaken. Bummer!

This was going to be my fourth published Corona SDK app, but unfortunately I think I’m going to have to find a different way to do it. That is just too much money for me to be able to afford :frowning:

Corona Enterprise would also be a valid option but it’s also about the same price. What are you wanting to do with bluetooth?

I have purchased an Arduino 101 board (https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoard101) and am working on a prototype of its integration into a small appliance …with a companion app, of course! The goal being to manufacture it for mass market, not just personal use :slight_smile:

So I would need the basic things you would expect from Bluetooth: connection/disconnection, and a way to pass packets of data back and forth (ideally JSON strings, but anything really).

I guess it is the sort of thing where, $1000USD isn’t unreasonable if our end goal works out (the thing goes to market and we sell some units!)… but early on here in our prototyping stage, it is definitely a very large hurdle for us.

Anyway, I appreciate you getting back to me…

I know someone is working on a Bluetooth plugin, but its a couple of months away since it’s an off-work project.

Enterprise comes with a trial period where you could see if you could get things working. At least that’s worth exploring. If this were a personal projects $1000 a year is quite a bit. But if you’re goal is a mass-market product, it’s trivial in the grand scale of things. I know keeping a tight reign on your budget is important early in a start up’s process.

Anyway check out the trial period.

Rob

You could try communicating over a local wifi connection. Thier is also this http://coronium-ace.readthedocs.io/ace_pi/

Corona Enterprise would also be a valid option but it’s also about the same price. What are you wanting to do with bluetooth?

I have purchased an Arduino 101 board (https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoard101) and am working on a prototype of its integration into a small appliance …with a companion app, of course! The goal being to manufacture it for mass market, not just personal use :slight_smile:

So I would need the basic things you would expect from Bluetooth: connection/disconnection, and a way to pass packets of data back and forth (ideally JSON strings, but anything really).

I guess it is the sort of thing where, $1000USD isn’t unreasonable if our end goal works out (the thing goes to market and we sell some units!)… but early on here in our prototyping stage, it is definitely a very large hurdle for us.

Anyway, I appreciate you getting back to me…

I know someone is working on a Bluetooth plugin, but its a couple of months away since it’s an off-work project.

Enterprise comes with a trial period where you could see if you could get things working. At least that’s worth exploring. If this were a personal projects $1000 a year is quite a bit. But if you’re goal is a mass-market product, it’s trivial in the grand scale of things. I know keeping a tight reign on your budget is important early in a start up’s process.

Anyway check out the trial period.

Rob

You could try communicating over a local wifi connection. Thier is also this http://coronium-ace.readthedocs.io/ace_pi/