Communicating with peripheral devices (HTML)

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Purpose

Your Windows Store app can communicate with a wide range of peripheral devices. Learn how your app can scan content from a scanner or use device protocol APIs to communicate with HID, Bluetooth GATT, and Bluetooth RFCOMM devices.

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Topic Description

Scanning

Learn how to scan content from your Windows Store app using JavaScript, by using a flatbed, feeder, or auto-configured scan source.

Bluetooth devices

Windows Runtime in Windows 8.1 provides several new Bluetooth namespaces:

Using these namespaces, developers can write a Windows Store app that talks to Bluetooth devices.

Human Interface Devices (HID)

The Windows.Devices.HumanInterfaceDevice API lets your Windows Runtime app access devices that support the Human Interface Device (HID) protocol.