How to use a bluetooth paired iPad as a keyboard for an OS X app

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Created Jan ’17

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I am looking to improve an app for the iPad that will work as a reliable bluetooth keyboard to control an app on my mac.

I am currently using BLE to do this and it is not a reliable enough connection to work consistantly.

I would like the ability to walk out of range with the iPad and come back to have it connect automatically.

I have done research into the HID profile and also MFi but I am not sure if this is what I am looking for.

I found an OS X app called typeeto that does almost exactly what I want but it goes from OS X to iOS and I want the opposite of that.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/typeeto-remote-full-size-bluetooth/id970502923?mt=12

Any information, guidance or opinions are welcome.

Thank you.

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NotMyName OP

Jan ’17

You're not going to be able to implement the keyboard HID profile as a mortal Developer app on iOS. So you can't make the iPad into a real bluetooth keyboard.

It's possible to do that in reverse because OS X provides more open developer access to the traditional Bluetooth API than iOS does.

So the question is "What do you want to do instead?"

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