Given the amount of interest in hardware integration with iFormBuilder, I am wondering if would be possible to create an element that could receive data from ANY BLE device when setup with the correct service/characteristic UUIDs.

My impression is that there are currently many data-collection devices (scales, temp probes, etc) that broadcast a value as a BLE characteristic either continuously or when a button is pressed. At present, in order to get this data into iFormBuilder, a 3rd party app has to be built to connect to the device and receive the data characteristic, and then pass it to iFormBuilder using a URI in iOS or intent in Android.

An element to receive data from any BLE characteristic could have settings in form builder something like this:

• BLE Service UUID:
• BLE Characteristic UUID:
• Device uses notification or indication?
• Convert data from: (binary, utf-8, etc for different data formats coming in to string)
• Ignore values: values to ignore, since some devices indicate their value continuously using a blank character, null, DC1 character, etc

There may also need to be some settings for devices that require a characteristic to be transmitted to turn them on/wake them up?

This functionality could also open iFormBuilder to up to many integrations with user-built hardware (ie, Arduino BLE devices).