# don/BluetoothSerial

Cordova (PhoneGap) Plugin for Serial Communication over Bluetooth

Repository: https://github.com/don/BluetoothSerial
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bluetoothserial
Language: Objective-C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: bluetooth, bluetooth-low-energy, cordova-plugin
Last push: 2024-04-18T07:27:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4866, "days_push": 867, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1085, forks 666 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:31.668081+00:00)

## What it is
A Cordova (PhoneGap) plugin enabling serial communication over Bluetooth between mobile devices and hardware like Arduino. It uses Classic Bluetooth on Android and Windows Phone, and Bluetooth Low Energy on iOS.

## Use cases
- communicate with an Arduino from a mobile app over Bluetooth
- send serial data to a BLE device from iOS
- build a Cordova app that talks to embedded hardware
- discover and list nearby unpaired Bluetooth devices
- subscribe to incoming Bluetooth serial data streams
- read and write raw data over a Bluetooth SPP connection

## When to choose
- you are building a Cordova/PhoneGap app that needs Bluetooth serial communication
- you need to connect Android or iOS devices to Arduino or similar microcontrollers
- you need cross-platform Bluetooth serial support including BLE on iOS

## When to avoid
- you need phone-to-phone Bluetooth connections (Android-to-Android or iOS-to-iOS are unsupported)
- you are not using Cordova or a compatible hybrid app framework
- you need Bluetooth profiles beyond serial communication

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: sdk, developer-tools
- domain: mobile-development, hardware, cross-platform
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: cordova-plugin, bluetooth-serial, arduino, phonegap, bluetooth-low-energy, hardware-communication, android, ios

## Member repositories
- don/BluetoothSerial (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:31.668081+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:49:42.938095+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/don/BluetoothSerial (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:31.668081+00:00, sha 55cf0c56a2e2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.