Listing Bluetooth devices nearby

Question

Hi all..

I am working on windows phone 8 application. I am trying to list all discoverable bluetooth devices nearby. For that i have used PeerFinder class. Using that class it was able to display the paired bluetooth devices nearby. But I couldn't display unpaired devices. Using PeerFinder.AlternateIdentities["Bluetooth:Paired"] = "" I could read only paird devices. Could anyone please tell me how to get the unpaired bluetooth device information. Waiting for your reply .

thanks,
Aswathy.

Aswathy AD · Answer

Hi Thanks for ur reply. Also I found that using app to app communication  we can find and even connect to an unpaired device provided our app is installed on the other devices. thanks Aswathy.

Abhishek Jain · Answer

Yes Aswathy you are right it is possible for App to App

Abhishek Jain · Answer

Sorry Aswathy but this is not possible i don't know the exact reason but it may be because of security issues. Security reasons in my view is because pairing is the process in which you find other blue tooth devices and connect to them by sharing PIN(That is both the parties agree on that). That is why Phones does not expose this functionalities as of now. Till now what i know is that you can only discover devices that are already paired with the phone on which your application is running.