[discussion] Wake up iOS Tether companion app via BLE magic packet

[metalgrid]

Wi-Fi connection currently works only if the tether app is opened on the iPhone.
To my understanding, Core bluetooth allows us to use the BLE connection where tetherd can send a BLE notification to the iPhone to wake the app.
We can probably wire the GUI to tell tetherd to wake it up when the GTK window opens and have that wifi connection established automatically.

I have 0 iOS dev experience, so I may be misunderstanding the capabilities. Do you think this is plausible?

[zackb]

Thanks for the idea! I had not thought of it. Currently, Tether actually doesn't connect to the iOS app over bluetooth but regular TLS/TCP. It connects directly to iOS over bluetooth to get messages/contacts/notifications and is unrelated to the app. That being said I wonder about a dual connection, one to iOS and one to the app. This is the most creative idea to solve this problem yet. I'll test it out and update this issue.

Thanks!