Communicating with Bluetooth devices over JavaScript

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2024-09-20 10:00:16

François Beaufort GitHub

What if I told you websites could communicate with nearby Bluetooth devices in a secure and privacy-preserving way? This way, heart rate monitors, singing lightbulbs, and even turtles could interact directly with a website.

Until now, the ability to interact with Bluetooth devices has been possible only for platform-specific apps. The Web Bluetooth API aims to change this and brings it to web browsers as well.

Even though the Web Bluetooth API specification is not finalized yet, the spec authors are actively looking for enthusiastic developers to try out this API and give feedback on the spec and feedback on the implementation.