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I recently started playing around with one of those RFDuino’s. These are microchips with BLE built-in and with the Arduino framework built around it. It’s easy to connect them to a iOS device, but if you want to connect them directly to your Mac, it’s a little bit harder. One of the things you’ll need, is BLE support on your Mac.
One way to check this is issuing the following command: systemprofiler -detailLevel full SPBluetoothDataType grep 'LMP Version' If you see a response like LMP Version: 0x6 Then you’re in luck, if you see a lower value, like LMP Version: 0x4 Then you need to buy a BLE Dongle, like me. I bought a, which actually has the inside it. On Mavericks, this chip should work ‘out of the box’, but it didn’t 😦 You’ll have to select which Bluetooth chip you want to use. The built-in one or the external. You can’t use both.
To do this you have to download the from the Apple Developers site (just search for it). Then, run Bluetooth Explorer. Choose ‘HCI Controller Selector’ from the tools menu. Select your BLE chip and press activate! If you’re using a Bluetooth mouse, you will have to re-pair your mouse again. So that’s it. Now I can start using those RFDuino’s with my Mac 🙂.
These are the Macs that Continuity Activation Tool 2.0 support. Photo: dokterdok First, a word on Continuity. Introduced in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, Continuity is not available on every Mac because it depends upon Bluetooth 4.0 LE to work, there are many third-party cards which, theoretically, you can plug into your Mac. By default, Apple doesn’t recognize these third-party solutions to enable Continuity unless you use this tool. As we already said, previously, the Continuity Activity Tool only supported Macs that could be hacked open to insert a third-party Bluetooth card.
But the new 2.0 version adds compatability Bluetooth 4.0 USB dongles, allowing many Macs from 2008 and later to easily upgrade to Continuity. What does this mean? If you own a 2011 MacBook Air or a Mac mini, you might be able to activate Continuity with no hardware upgrades required? Otherwise, there’s a number of cheap dongles on the web that will make your Mac Continuity-compatabile. Download the latest version of the OS X Continuity Activation Tool.