Hi Joe,
For iOS, there shouldn't be any software to install on your laptop. The emulator package we publish emulates Android. Also, due to a limitation of the emulator software it cannot use the BLE chip in the laptop for communication (it's completely isolated from the host hardware).
Our BLE support is still in beta, which means you'll need to sign up for the beta program through Apple TestFlight. To do so, you install the TestFlight app from the App Store on your iOS device, then open the Join link on this post:
This will launch TestFlight and ask you to confirm you want to join. Once you've joined, you can install the beta version to be released (hopefully soon, so if you want to skip this step and come back in a few weeks it should be out).
Lastly, you'll need to add the BLE extension to your project. You can download that from here.
Can you tell us more about the specific UUIDs and data structures your exchanging with your BLE device?