Hi,
I've been having a lot of trouble with trying to find a bluetooth module that will establish a connection and communicate with my Macbook Pro (Late 2014). I would like to have a bluetooth module connected to the Arduino and some other component like a potentiometer. I would like to rotate the potentiometer and have that data sent from a bluetooth module into my computer to speak with other programs such as Max MSP or PD.
Does anyone have experience with connecting a bluetooth module to a Mac and sending messages from the Arduino? I have tried both the HC-05 and HC-08 and had no luck connecting to Mac despite following a bunch of tutorials. If it helps at all, I was able to connect my HC-08 to my iPhone with the app Bluetooth Serial Lite, but that app does not exist for MacOS.
danielleamya:
If it helps at all, I was able to connect my HC-08 to my iPhone with the app Bluetooth Serial Lite, but that app does not exist for MacOS.
It doesn't help one little bit. As I understand it, HC-05 is fine with macOS, but it is incompatible with IOS. IOS only works with BT4 and HC-08 is one of those, but that proves nothing - except that there is nothing wrong with it. Having said that, you should be able to use BT4 on the mac. It might be that the reason why you can't is the same as that for the HC-05.
There is a faint hope that your problem is simply procedural, i.e. something silly. If you stick with the HC-05 and can use a plain vanilla terminal programme, you might find the following background notes useful.
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~npyner/Arduino/GUIDE_2BT.pdf
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~npyner/Arduino/BT_2_WAY.ino