AsyncBluetooth

A small library that adds concurrency to CoreBluetooth APIs.

Features

• Async/Await APIs
• Queueing of commands
• Data conversion to common types
• Thread safety
• Convenience APIs for reading/writing without needing to explicitly discover characteristics.
• Convenience API for waiting until Bluetooth is ready.

Usage

Scanning for a peripheral

Start scanning by calling the central manager’s scanForPeripherals
function. It returns an AsyncStream you can use to iterate over the
discovered peripherals. Once you’re satisfied with your scan, you can
break from the loop and stop scanning.

let centralManager = CentralManager()

try await centralManager.waitUntilReady()

let scanDataStream = try await centralManager.scanForPeripherals(withServices: nil)
for await scanData in scanDataStream {
    // Check scan data...
}

await centralManager.stopScan()

Connecting to a peripheral

Once you have your peripheral, you can use the central manager to connect
to it. Note you must hold a reference to the Peripheral while it’s
connected.

try await centralManager.connect(peripheral, options: nil)

Subscribe to central manager events

The central manager publishes several events. You can subscribe to them by using the eventPublisher.

await centralManager.eventPublisher
    .sink {
        switch $0 {
        case .didConnectPeripheral(let peripheral):
            print("Connected to \(peripheral.identifier)")
        default:
            break
        }
    }
    .store(in: &cancellables)

See CentralManagerEvent to see available events.

Read value from characteristic

You can use convenience functions for reading characteristics. They will find the characteristic by using a UUID, and
parse the data into the appropriate type.

let value: String? = try await peripheral.readValue(
    forCharacteristicWithUUID: UUID(uuidString: "")!,
    ofServiceWithUUID: UUID(uuidString: "")!
)

Write value to characteristic

Similar to reading, we have convenience functions for writing to characteristics.

try await peripheral.writeValue(
    value,
    forCharacteristicWithUUID: UUID(uuidString: "")!,
    ofServiceWithUUID: UUID(uuidString: "")!
)

Subscribe to a characteristic

To get notified when a characteristic’s value is updated, we provide a publisher you can subscribe to:

let characteristicUUID = CBUUID()
await peripheral.characteristicValueUpdatedPublisher
    .filter { $0.uuid == characteristicUUID }
    .map { try? $0.parsedValue() as String? } // replace `String?` with your type
    .sink { value in
        print("Value updated to '\(value)'")
    }
    .store(in: &cancellables)

Remember that you should enable notifications on that characteristic to receive updated values.

try await peripheral.setNotifyValue(true, characteristicUUID, serviceUUID)

Canceling operations

To cancel a specific operation, you can wrap your call in a Task:

let fetchTask = Task {
    do {
        return try await peripheral.readValue(
            forCharacteristicWithUUID: UUID(uuidString: "")!,
            ofServiceWithUUID: UUID(uuidString: "")!
        )
    } catch {
        return ""
    }
}

fetchTask.cancel()

There might also be cases were you want to stop awaiting for all responses. For example, when bluetooth has been powered off. This can be done like so:

await centralManager.eventPublisher
    .sink {
        switch $0 {
        case .didUpdateState(let state):
            guard state == .poweredOff else {
                return
            }
            centralManager.cancelAllOperations()
            peripheral.cancelAllOperations()
        default:
            break
        }
    }
    .store(in: &cancellables)

Logging

The library uses os.log to provide logging for several operations. These logs are enabled by default. If you wish to disable them, you can do:

AsyncBluetoothLogging.setEnabled(false)

Examples

You can find practical, tasty recipes for how to use AsyncBluetooth in the
AsyncBluetooth Cookbook.

Installation

Swift Package Manager

This library can be installed using the Swift Package Manager by adding it
to your Package Dependencies.

Requirements

• iOS 14.0+
• MacOS 11.0+
• Swift 5
• Xcode 13.2.1+

License

Licensed under MIT license.