3/9/2023 0 Comments Download notifyr![]() Communicating with peripheral’s via BLE on ESP32 is well documented, and the same could be said about connecting via Wifi. I ended up going for a DollaTek ESP32 WROVER because it has a PH-2 2.0mm Battery connector - and there’s definitely a need for the device to be portable.Īs soon as I had workable hardware, I knew I’d be able to organise the software side of things quite quickly. This would be more than enough to work with and there’s plenty of support for ESP32 WROVER boards in the Ardunio IDE (Plus I’d be able to use C++, a language I wholeheartedly miss using). This is when I discovered ESP32 logic boards - while the stock board wasn’t workable, the WROVER version of the board has 4mb of PRAM. I spent two days going through various hardware revisions of an Arduino Uno R3, Arduino Uno Wifi REV2 etc until I realised thatthe meagre amount of RAM Arduino provides wouldn’t be workable. The various hardware revisions that were tested for this project As soon as I realised that if the hardware had both Bluetooth AND Wifi, I would be able to forward my notifications to ANY device capable of receiving notifications, not just my Macbook. I must have been pretty tired at this point, or possibly drinking too much of Daniel Ricciardo’s DR3 shiraz. While planning what hardware I would need, I initially thought the optimal solution would be to have a device with Bluetooth only and deliver the ANCS data through USB to the Mac. So, it looks like I’m going down the hardware route. While I could have looked into restoring ANCS to both iOS and macOS, I’d like to make the end result of this project open-source and available to anyone capable of following instructions via a guide, and I think if this was even possible it wouldn have been fairly involved - so that wasn’t going to be a viable solution here. It also felt overly invasive, almost as if I were trespassing on hallowed ground. I found people that had tried the same approach, and they were either faced with encryption or other roadblocks. Shortly after looking into using private API’s, it was obvious that it wasn’t going to work. Seeing as my initial research didn’t reveal any software-only solutions, I decided to take a look at private API’s as a possibility to see if that would bear any fruit - pun intended. So going down this route in 2022 would require additional hardware. After a bit more digging, I found a post on the Apple Developer forums that confirmed the consumption (and only the consumption) of ANCS on iOS and macOS was removed in iOS 9. I wrote a quick CoreBluetooth app to try and access ANCS data, but unfortunately the characteristic was nowhere to be seen. ANCS ( Apple Notification Center Service) was created to allow bluetooth devices to access an iPhone’s notifications (Think cars, old pebble watches etc). I looked into how this would have worked and discovered that Apple added something called ANCS in iOS 7. It was a macOS app that connected to your iPhone via Bluetooth to display all of your notifications as they come in. So I went into the Easter Bank Holiday weekend with the intention of figuring out how I could fix this, or if there was anything I could even do.Įarly into researching possible solutions, I found an old app, which is now defunct, from the era of iOS 8 called Notifyr. In an ideal world, I’d be able to forward my iOS notifications to my mac, at minimum. This time I’m attempting to solve a problem that I have during my day-to-day, and that’s accessibility to my notifications.Īs a working father of two with numerous responsibilities both professional and personal, I need to have access to my notifications almost all of the time - and when your preference is to wear noise cancelling headphones while working or if you’re working in a professional office, that isn’t always straightforward. Previously I’ve reverse-engineered Bluetooth Food Scales (the result of which was used in a Top 10 Food / Health app - sorry Salter) and I’ve done some cool bits with OCR, ARKit and SceneKit with my Pokemon Demo. In recent years I’ve enjoyed presenting these mini explorations in the form of demos. One of my favourite things to do as a developer is reach outside of my comfort zone and attempt to do something that I wouldn’t normally be in a position to. Forwarding iOS Notifications to any device capable of receiving notifications. ![]()
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