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App's Access to Bluetooth Locks

Last Updated on : 2022-06-20 02:43:15

Bluetooth connection strategy

The increasing number of Bluetooth lock types is pushing the limits on the existing app capabilities to deal with connection to or disconnection from the smart locks. Therefore, the connection and disconnection scenarios are classified to be further combined as needed. You can customize the default reconnection and disconnection methods on the Tuya IoT Development Platform.

App’s logic of connection and disconnection over Bluetooth

The following figure shows the app’s logic to process connection to and disconnection from Bluetooth locks.

App's Access to Bluetooth Locks

Bluetooth connection

Connection option	Open app or pull homepage to refresh	Bluetooth enabled	Open panel	Initiate access to panel feature	Automatic reconnection to device
Default connection	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌
Connect on demand	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌
Keep connected	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Do not connect	❌	❌	❌	✅	❌

✅: indicates that the connection will be triggered, or the feature is supported. Note that the item “Initiate access to panel feature” only indicates whether the feature is supported. The implementation depends on the specific panel features.

❌: indicates that the connection will not be triggered.

Bluetooth disconnection

Disconnection option	Kill app or disable Bluetooth	Disconnected from panel for 30s	Always-on or running in background for 30s	Terminate access to panel feature
Disconnect in time	✅	❌	✅	✅
Connect on demand	✅	❌	❌	✅
Continuous connection	✅	❌	❌	✅
Disconnect in time & on demand	✅	✅	✅	✅

✅: indicates that the device will be disconnected.

❌: indicates that disconnection will not be triggered.

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