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Inspiration

We wanted to create a multimedia control kit for car owners that do not have enough funds to buy newest cars, but still want the convenience of multi-function steering wheel.

What it does

Button lets driver control the music app on iOS device Presents weather forecast both by speaking on car stereo/iOS device speakers Presents weather forecast on screen. (Every function can be reached by using the single bluetooth button)

How I built it

We used CoreBluetooth library to talk to the myLupo bluetooth button and get the user input (single press/short press/long press/double-click). We used MediaPlayer library to control Music app with myLupo, single press = Play/Pause, short press = Next Song, long Press = Previous Song. We used AVSpeechSynthesizer to handle text-to-speech of weather forecasts & notify user about changes handling Android App still in development stage.

Challenges I ran into

We tried using API of myLupo, but for our situation CoreBluetooth was more convenient. Also, we wanted to handle the Phone app calls (letting you answer/reject call), but iOS does not allow this kind of control for BLE device which is not of a "Handsfree" type.