react-native-ble-manager VS react-native-ble-plx

Compare react-native-ble-manager vs react-native-ble-plx and see what are their differences.

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react-native-ble-manager react-native-ble-plx
7 17
2,012 2,917
2.2% 1.3%
9.1 8.0
7 days ago 8 days ago
Java Swift
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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react-native-ble-manager

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-native-ble-manager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-06.
  • Comparing React Native BLE libraries
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 Mar 2024
    If react-native-ble-plx seems too advanced, react-native-ble-manager offers another excellent choice. This tool supports all primary BLE capabilities like scanning for devices, establishing connections, transferring data, getting notifications on status changes, and disconnecting. It provides a simple way to get basic BLE functionality working quickly in React Native apps.
  • Integrating Scanners trough Bluetooth - HID or BLE?
    2 projects | /r/reactnative | 22 Oct 2023
    The idea is to read the input from those devices. Tried to use react-native-ble-plx and react-native-ble-manager I was able to find and use the EY-016 model, but could not find the EY-017 model. Was thinking about using classic mode, but then I've read about it needs MFI compliance on IOS, which those does not have. But it would be a better solution with classic, as those devices comes as HDI mode as default, so the customer would not need to do extra stuff to get going. And also if I needed to make integration with another device that didn't have BLE.
  • Should I use React Native?
    2 projects | /r/reactnative | 7 Jul 2023
    I believe React Native can definitely handle those requirements, but it would depend on the complexity... What kind of BLE devices? I've used this react-native-ble-manager library and it was pretty straightforward to scan and connect. For notifications, I definitely recommend Notifee or maybe you can leverage Firebase for database, sync, and push notifications.
  • React-Native Bluetooth connection
    2 projects | /r/reactnative | 30 Nov 2022
    What kinds of Bluetooth devices and what are you trying to do? I have also been using react-native-ble-manager and it works well for my purposes. There is an example project in that repo.
  • Can someone please walk me through how to connect to a BLE device
    2 projects | /r/reactnative | 29 May 2022
    Use react-native-ble-plx or react-native-ble-manager
  • react native and arduino
    3 projects | /r/reactnative | 19 Sep 2021
    I use blemanager and that works pretty good. Bluetooth is tedious though, you have to follow the docs very precise
  • Bluetooth BLE
    2 projects | /r/reactnative | 14 Sep 2021
    I've checked https://github.com/innoveit/react-native-ble-manager which does multiple read requests (and multiple notifications) out of the box, but not as one write request. In the second library https://github.com/dotintent/react-native-ble-plx you have to make the chunks manually, but you can't do a "prepare write request".

react-native-ble-plx

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-native-ble-plx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-22.
  • Integrating Scanners trough Bluetooth - HID or BLE?
    2 projects | /r/reactnative | 22 Oct 2023
    The idea is to read the input from those devices. Tried to use react-native-ble-plx and react-native-ble-manager I was able to find and use the EY-016 model, but could not find the EY-017 model. Was thinking about using classic mode, but then I've read about it needs MFI compliance on IOS, which those does not have. But it would be a better solution with classic, as those devices comes as HDI mode as default, so the customer would not need to do extra stuff to get going. And also if I needed to make integration with another device that didn't have BLE.
  • Should I use React Native?
    2 projects | /r/reactnative | 7 Jul 2023
    I've done a decent amount of work with bluetooth and react native. It's not particularly hard, especially the scanning and connecting. react-native-ble-plx: https://github.com/dotintent/react-native-ble-plx works great and can scan, connect, setup monitoring of ble data, or just read when needed. I can probably help you a little if you need.
  • What's going on with Bluetooth?
    3 projects | /r/expo | 13 Mar 2023
    I've also found this, but there isn't a solid workflow on how to properly "eject" the app
  • Why are you accusing "Missing semicolon"?
    1 project | /r/reactnative | 11 Jan 2023
  • Phones communications by bluetooth ?
    1 project | /r/reactnative | 25 Sep 2022
    excume me, I want to implement communications between android and iphone by bluetooth, but I had read some articles and documentations which tells me not support communicating between phones using BLE (Peripheral support) by using react-native-ble-plx or react-native-ble-manager I want to know which library support communications smartphones by write and read bluetooth data or how to communications by bluetooth ?
  • Expo SDK and native module
    3 projects | dev.to | 16 Sep 2022
    The most stable native module react-native-ble-plx allows working only in central mode.
  • What is NOT possible within expo?
    2 projects | /r/reactnative | 9 Sep 2022
    Bluetooth is now supported using the EXPO eas build plugin provided by https://github.com/dotintent/react-native-ble-plx it works great!
  • Is it possible to transfer data between 2 phones using Bluetooth and React native?
    2 projects | /r/reactnative | 18 Aug 2022
    My simple BLE scanner is made using this library: https://github.com/dotintent/react-native-ble-plx And it was quite easy to work with and easy to understand.
  • Mesh networking at events
    1 project | /r/reactnative | 11 Jul 2022
    Presumably though, you could use a low-level library like: https://github.com/dotintent/react-native-ble-plx
  • Cant send data with react-native-ble-plx
    1 project | /r/reactnative | 31 May 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-native-ble-manager and react-native-ble-plx you can also consider the following projects:

cordova-plugin-ble-central - Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Central plugin for Apache Cordova (aka PhoneGap)

react-native-bluetooth-classic - ⚛ Bluetooth classic Android(Bluetooth)/IOS(ExternalAccessory) module for serial communication

johnny-five - JavaScript Robotics and IoT programming framework, developed at Bocoup.

config-plugins - Out-of-tree Expo config plugins for packages that haven't adopted the config plugin system yet.

react-native-background-actions - React Native background service library for running background tasks forever in Android & iOS.

expo-ble

itag - iTag tracker manager for real people

react-native-builder-bob - 👷‍♂️ Simple set of CLIs to scaffold and build React Native libraries for different targets

react-native-restart - React Native Package With One Purpose: To Restart Your React Native Project

cat6 - Multiplayer game for cycling smart trainers

react-hardware - A React renderer for Hardware.

react-native-splash-screen - A splash screen for react-native, hide when application loaded ,it works on iOS and Android.