ancs4linux

Hey; Blueferry is an app that connects to your iPhone via Bluetooth to expose an iMessage bridge to your Linux desktop. It supports receiving and sending text-based messages, either 1:1 or in group threads. It requires no phone-side software or jailbreak - just Bluetooth pairing. It accomplishes this by using an undocumented? behavior where enabling ANCS via Bluetooth LE (via https://github.com/pzmarzly/ancs4linux 's technique) causes the phone to accept message capability requests over standard Bluetooth. ancs4linux indicate that they've had mixed success with different BT chipsets on the Linux side, though all of the machines I've been able to test it on have been able to negotiate the connection.

I implemented a daemon for reading notifications (including SMS) on Linux https://github.com/pzmarzly/ancs4linux Adding support for sending SMS shouldn't be hard, but I don't have time recently to work on that. https://github.com/pzmarzly/ancs4linux/issues/10

A bit of a shameless self-plug, but it took me 4 weekends to implement iMessage message receiving with BlueZ[0]. Sadly, all I learned about Bluetooth LE and Apple's ANCS will be completely useless when it comes to sending messages, since MAP works over Bluetooth, while ANCS works over Bluetooth Low Energy, and these 2 protocols are almost nothing alike. [0] https://github.com/pzmarzly/ancs4linux

> most of their users are on Android To me, Android PushBullet killer feature is notification sync (though I moved to KDE Connect once it came out), so I never had any reason to install their iOS app. For iOS, only Bluetooth devices can access notifications - BTW I made a script for Linux for that: https://github.com/pzmarzly/ancs4linux Rest of the features seem to be possible to replicate with Firefox or Chrome for iOS, plus iCloud, plus pushover.net.