Change Bluetooth MAC Address on MacBook... for Pioneer radio sync

Okay before people get into an uproar...
Pioneer has a Bluetooth add-on for their touch screen nav radios. It allows a bluetooth enabled phone to send and receive calls, as well as sync their phone books.

Problem is that the iPhone does not allow a user to send their phone book over bluetooth. Currently I am syncing my iPhones phone book to my MacBook. I found out that the Pioneer unit ID's its phone book by the Bluetooth MAC address that uploaded it- ie you could have 4 phones hooked to the unit, and each one can have their own separate phone book, and the unit knows which phone book goes to which phone by Bluetooth MAC address.

What I would like to do is change the Bluetooth MAC address on my MacBook to match that of my iPhone. This way I can send my phone book over to the Pioneer unit, and then hook up my iPhone to the unit and be able to use the contact dial build into the Pioneer.

Hope that all makes sense. Is this possible? Is this possible and no one wants to talk about it? 🙂 Its just too bad that Apple gave the iPhone such a stripped down Bluetooth option list.

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Dec 20, 2007 7:16 PM

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Dec 20, 2007 8:33 PM in response to Thomas Reminga1

I don't think that's going to be possible. The MAC address is hard wired into each device. Everyone is different. There is no way(at least that I'm aware of) to change it.

There are instances when you can "spoof" a MAC address, but the only place I've seen this was in routers... This allows the router to pretend to be, or spoof, a different MAC address... it doesn't really change it. And note that in this case that router is between the spoofer and the spoofey, so to speak.

I just don't think you'll be able to do what you want the way you want.

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