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Side*note: I really hope we can move away from the term "sideloading" which makes it sound like we're doing something on the down low.

Installing something is a perfectly normal operation - it's the App Store that's the special case :).

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Yes, how about just "loading"?
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Direct Install, or better yet, Owner Controlled Install.

Lets call it what it is.

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You actually can use most bluetooth apis in websites on most browsers outside of iOS [0]. I used recently this tool [1] to program my baofeng radio and the bluetooth aspect of it worked great, but I did end up having to reverse engineer aspects of the payload to get it encode and decode all the channel configuration correctly.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Bluetoo...

[1] https://dz0ny.github.io/5r-mini-ble-tool/

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