iOS app that streams the iPhone's GPS location to an ESP32
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2025 6:07 pm
For a project I'm building, I wanted to be able to have a GPS signal on my ESP32 without having to deal with a GPS module. I figured out I could simply send the GPS data from my iPhone over bluetooth, and so I made a small iOS app for this purpose, along a ESP32 program that simply logs the payload that's received from the iPhone
Here's the repo: https://github.com/benjamin-feldman/esp_ble
What this does is:
- establish a BLE connection between the ESP32 and an iOS/Mac OS device
- stream the device GPS data to the ESP32
- logs it in the ESP32 serial monitor
I'm posting this here as it might help others, but I'm also happy to have some feedback on this since I'm not very experimented on BLE!
Here's the repo: https://github.com/benjamin-feldman/esp_ble
What this does is:
- establish a BLE connection between the ESP32 and an iOS/Mac OS device
- stream the device GPS data to the ESP32
- logs it in the ESP32 serial monitor
I'm posting this here as it might help others, but I'm also happy to have some feedback on this since I'm not very experimented on BLE!