TNet bluetooth support? Question to Tasharen

[sloopernine]

I saw that Starlink got support for bluetooth, this is something that are very intressting. I also read it is planned for TNet.

But I could not find it anywhere in the changelog, so I guess it is still in the ToDo list?

Are there any estimated time until it is integrated? Not any specific date, but how many weeks or months do we look at ?

[ArenMook]

Bluetooth support is disabled in Starlink right now. It's not yet live. It's on the TODO list, but my list is crazy busy until October or so. I plan on doing a lot of work on TNet this coming fall as I'll be also changing Windward to use it, which will no doubt lead to quite a few improvements.

[sloopernine]

Sounds really great! Thanks for the answer!

[tydygunn]

Hey Aren, do you have an update on potential bluetooth multiplayer for TNet? I bought TNet a few months ago and have been really happy with it, and bluetooth networking would be a tremendous boon.

Will any bluetooth support be cross-platform? I've seen bluetooth support in other packages for Android>>Android or iOS>>iOS but never iOS>>Android. Is something like that even technically possible?

I love TNet by the way, great job on that!

[ArenMook]

I remember trying to take this on last year but it didn't go far. Bluetooth support is one of those platform-specific things, so it has to be done differently on each platform -- at least based on what I gathered. It's not a simple thing, unfortunately. This doesn't mean I won't do it -- I still want to add it as a feature -- but I'm focusing on other things right now, like interest regions and server migration.