How can I clear the CoreBluetooth cache on MacOS?

Question

I\'m developing a Bluetooth LE device and am having trouble because of MacOS\'s caching of the services. If I try to delete a service or change its UUID on the device I\'m

Answer 1

I finally found the source of the problem -- there's a cache in the user preferences folder in a folder named ByHost. Here are the steps to clear the Bluetooth cache:

• Turn off Bluetooth
• Delete com.apple.Bluetooth.plist from /Library/Preferences
• Delete files named com.apple.Bluetooth.somehexuuidstuff.plist from ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost (note that this is the user preference folder, not the system one)
• Turn on Bluetooth

After doing that my peripheral's services are correctly identified. From what I found on the web, there may also be some other com.apple.Bluetooth files in /Library/Preferences related to HIDs or headsets or something -- I don't know if it's important to delete those as I didn't have them on my system.