Tracking macOS High Sierra Support

Setup noble: 1.8.1 node: 7.7.2 macOS High Sierra 10.13 GM (17A362a)

Description Current, Yosemite bindings no longer work on High Sierra, supposedly because of changes in CoreBluetooth. Here ‘stateChange’ events now comes as kCBMsgId4 I used method stated in https://github.com/sandeepmistry/bleno/issues/177#issuecomment-195975227, but haven’t managed to compile https://github.com/sandeepmistry/osx-ble-peripheral on 10.13 SDK, because of linking error

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_OBJC_CLASS_$_CBXpcConnection"

which might mean it was removed.

[Axadiw]

We’re working on it here: https://github.com/PolideaInternal/noble/tree/macos_highsierra

Unfortunately https://github.com/sandeepmistry/osx-ble-peripheral isn’t working anymore on HighSierra (we’re not able to swizzle CBXpcConnection class there).

We’ve been sniffing XPC traffic using http://newosxbook.com/tools/XPoCe.html and decompiling bluetoothd using https://www.hopperapp.com and we’ve managed to retrieve some of the correct ID’s that are being sent byt XPC to bluetoothd on HighSierra.

If someone could test it, and fix all not working calls, we’ll be very appreciated.

Generally I think that this XPC method should be abanddoned in noble and some legit implementation basing on CoreBluetooth should be used there (I think that https://github.com/sandeepmistry/noble/tree/more-test is a good start for it)

[jacobrosenthal]

I have a hopefully complete high sierra PR in https://github.com/sandeepmistry/noble/pull/727

Needs testing though.

You can have npm install from my git branch with npm install git://github.com/jacobrosenthal/noble.git#highsierra or edit your package.json and add the branch to your dependencies

  "dependencies": {
    "noble": "git://github.com/jacobrosenthal/noble.git#highsierra"
  }