Using Bluetooth with a Google Chrome extension

Question

I've seen the experimental API for using Bluetooth has been recently released and I wanted to perform a few tests. I've looked at the official documentation at http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/trunk/experimental.bluetooth.html but even the most simple example won't work. Of course, I previously set the permissions correctly in order to use the experimental APIs.

My background.js looks like this:

function booleanCallback(result) {
    alert(result.toString());
}

chrome.experimental.bluetooth.isPowered(booleanCallback);

No matter what, result is always undefined . Any thoughts on this?

Cheers.

Answer 1

The Bluetooth API is currently only implemented on Chrome OS. There are open issues for the implementation on Windows , Mac and Linux . You may want to star one or more of those to be updated when the API is available on more platforms.