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Bluetooth

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

The Bluetooth interface of the Web Bluetooth API returns a Promise to a BluetoothDevice object with the specified options.

EventTarget Bluetooth

Instance properties

Inherits properties from its parent EventTarget.

Instance methods

Bluetooth.getAvailability() Experimental

Returns a Promise that resolved to a boolean value indicating whether the user-agent has the ability to support Bluetooth. Some user-agents let the user configure an option that affects what is returned by this value. If this option is set, that is the value returned by this method.

Bluetooth.getDevices() Experimental

Returns a Promise that resolved to an array of BluetoothDevices which the origin already obtained permission for via a call to Bluetooth.requestDevice().

Bluetooth.requestDevice() Experimental

Returns a Promise to a BluetoothDevice object with the specified options.

Events

availabilitychanged Experimental

An event that fires when Bluetooth capabilities have changed in availability.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Internet Explorer Opera Safari WebView Android Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet
Bluetooth
56Before Chrome 70, this feature was only supported in macOS. In Chrome 70, support was added for Windows 10. Linux support is not enabled by default.
56In Linux and versions of Windows earlier than 10, this flag must be enabled.
79Supported by default only on macOS and Windows 10. Linux support is not enabled by default.
79In Linux and versions of Windows earlier than 10, this flag must be enabled.
No No
43Before Opera 57, this feature was only supported in macOS. In Opera 57, support was added for Windows 10. Linux support is not enabled by default.
43In Linux and versions of Windows earlier than 10, this flag must be enabled.
No No 56 No 43 No 6.0
availabilitychanged_event 56 79 No No 43 No No No No No No No
getAvailability 78 79 No No 65 No No 78 No 56 No 12.0
getDevices 85 85 No No 71 No No 85 No No No No
requestDevice 56 79 No No 43 No No 56 No 43 No 6.0

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