bleak 0.7.1

Bluetooth Low Energy platform Agnostic Klient

bleak

Bleak is an acronym for Bluetooth Low Energy platform Agnostic Klient.

• Free software: MIT license

• Documentation: https://bleak.readthedocs.io.

Bleak is a GATT client software, capable of connecting to BLE devices acting as GATT servers. It is designed to provide a asynchronous, cross-platform Python API to connect and communicate with e.g. sensors.

Installation

$ pip install bleak

Features

• Supports Windows 10, version 16299 (Fall Creators Update) or greater

• Supports Linux distributions with BlueZ >= 5.43

• OS X/macOS support via Core Bluetooth API, from at least OS X version 10.11

Bleak supports reading, writing and getting notifications from GATT servers, as well as a function for discovering BLE devices.

Usage

To discover Bluetooth devices that can be connected to:

import asyncio
from bleak import discover

async def run():
    devices = await discover()
    for d in devices:
        print(d)

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(run())

Connect to a Bluetooth device and read its model number:

import asyncio
from bleak import BleakClient

address = "24:71:89:cc:09:05"
MODEL_NBR_UUID = "00002a24-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb"

async def run(address, loop):
    async with BleakClient(address, loop=loop) as client:
        model_number = await client.read_gatt_char(MODEL_NBR_UUID)
        print("Model Number: {0}".format("".join(map(chr, model_number))))

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(run(address, loop))

See examples folder for more code, for instance example code for connecting to a TI SensorTag CC2650

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

0.7.1 (2020-07-02)

Changed

• Improved, more explantory error on BlueZ backend when BleakClient cannot find the desired device when trying to connect. (#238)

• Better-than-nothing documentation about scanning filters added (#230).

• Ran black on code which was forgotten in 0.7.0. Large diffs due to that.

• Re-adding Python 3.8 CI “tests” on Windows again.

Fixed

• Fix when characteristic updates value faster than asyncio schedule (#240 & #241)

0.7.0 (2020-06-30)

Added

• Better feedback of communication errors to user in .NET backend and implementing error details proposed in #174.

• Two devices example file to use for e.g. debugging.

• Detection/discovery callbacks in Core Bluetooth backend Scanner implemented.

• Characteristic handle printout in service_explorer.py.

• Added scanning filters to .NET backend’s discover method.

Changed

• Replace NSRunLoop with dispatch queue in Core Bluetooth backend. This causes callbacks to be dispatched on a background thread instead of on the main dispatch queue on the main thread. call_soon_threadsafe() is used to synchronize the events with the event loop where the central manager was created. Fixes #111.

• The Central Manager is no longer global in the Core Bluetooth backend. A new one is created for each BleakClient and BleakScanner. Fixes #206 and #105.

• Merged #167 and reworked characteristics handling in Bleak. Implemented in all backends; bleak now uses the characteristics’ handle to identify and keep track of them. Fixes #139 and #159 and allows connection for devices with multiple instances of the same characteristic UUIDs.

• In requirements.txt and Pipfile, the requirement on pythonnet was bumped to version 2.5.1, which seems to solve issues described in #217 and #225.

• Renamed HISTORY.rst to CHANGELOG.rst and adopted the Keep a Changelog format.

• Python 3.5 support from macOS is officially removed since pyobjc>6 requires 3.6+

• Pin pyobjc dependencies to use at least version 6.2. (PR #194)

• Pin development requirement on bump2version to version 1.0.0

• Added .pyup.yml for Pyup

• Using CBManagerState constants from pyobj instead of integers.

Removed

• Removed documentation note about not using new event loops in Linux. This was fixed by #143.

• _central_manager_delegate_ready was removed in macOS backend.

• Removed the bleak.backends.bluez.utils.get_gatt_service_path method. It is not used by bleak and possibly generates errors.

Fixed

• Improved handling of the txdbus connection to avoid hanging of disconnection clients in BlueZ backend. Fixes #216, #219 & #221.

• #150 hints at the device path not being possible to create as is done in the get_device_object_path method. Now, we try to get it from BlueZ first. Otherwise, use the old fallback.

• Minor documentation errors corrected.

• CBManagerStatePoweredOn is now properly handled in Core Bluetooth.

• Device enumeration in discover``and ``Scanner corrected. Fixes #211

• Updated documentation about scanning filters.

• Added workaround for isScanning attribute added in macOS 10.13. Fixes #234.

0.6.4 (2020-05-20)

Fixed

• Fix for bumpversion usage

0.6.3 (2020-05-20)

Added

• Building and releasing from Github Actions

Removed

• Building and releasing on Azure Pipelines

0.6.2 (2020-05-15)

Added

• Added disconnection_callback functionality for Core Bluetooth (#184 & #186)

• Added requirements.txt

Fixed

• Better cleanup of Bluez notifications (#154)

• Fix for read_gatt_char in Core Bluetooth (#177)

• Fix for is_disconnected in Core Bluetooth (#187 & #185)

• Documentation fixes

0.6.1 (2020-03-09)

Fixed

• Including #156, lost notifications on macOS backend, which was accidentally missed on previous release.

0.6.0 (2020-03-09)

• New Scanner object to allow for async device scanning.

• Updated txdbus requirement to version 1.1.1 (Merged #122)

• Implemented write_gatt_descriptor for Bluez backend.

• Large change in Bluez backend handling of Twisted reactors. Fixes #143

• Modified set_disconnect_callback to actually call the callback as a callback. Fixes #108.

• Added another required parameter to disconnect callbacks.

• Added Discovery filter option in BlueZ backend (Merged #124)

• Merge #138: comments about Bluez version check.

• Improved scanning data for macOS backend. Merge #126.

• Merges #141, a critical fix for macOS.

• Fix for #114, write with response on macOS.

• Fix for #87, DIctionary changes size on .NET backend.

• Fix for #127, uuid or str on macOS.

• Handles str/uuid for characteristics better.

• Merge #148, Run .NET backend notifications on event loop instead of main loop.

• Merge #146, adapt characteristic write log to account for WriteWithoutResponse on macOS.

• Fix for #145, Error in cleanup on Bluez backend.

• Fix for #151, only subscribe to BlueZ messages on DBus. Merge #152.

• Fix for #142, Merge #144, Improved scanning for macOS backend.

• Fix for #155, Merge #156, lost notifications on macOS backend.

• Improved type hints

• Improved error handling for .NET backend.

• Documentation fixes.

0.5.1 (2019-10-09)

• Active Scanning on Windows, #99 potentially solving #95

• Longer timeout in service discovery on BlueZ

• Added timeout to constructors and connect methods

• Fix for get_services on macOS. Relates to #101

• Fixes for disconnect callback on BlueZ, #86 and #83

• Fixed reading of device name in BlueZ. It is not readable as regular characteristic. #104

• Removed logger feedback in BlueZ discovery method.

• More verbose exceptions on macOS, #117 and #107

0.5.0 (2019-08-02)

• macOS support added (thanks to @kevincar)

• Merged #90 which fixed #89: Leaking callbacks in BlueZ

• Merged #92 which fixed #91, Prevent leaking of DBus connections on discovery

• Merged #96: Regex patterns

• Merged #86 which fixed #83 and #82

• Recovered old .NET discovery method to try for #95

• Merged #80: macOS development

0.4.3 (2019-06-30)

• Fix for #76

• Fix for #69

• Fix for #74

• Fix for #68

• Fix for #70

• Merged #66

0.4.2 (2019-05-17)

• Fix for missed part of PR #61.

0.4.1 (2019-05-17)

• Merging of PR #61, improvements and fixes for multiple issues for BlueZ backend

• Implementation of issue #57

• Fixing issue #59

• Documentation fixes.

0.4.0 (2019-04-10)

• Transferred code from the BleakUWPBridge C# support project to pythonnet code

• Fixed BlueZ >= 5.48 issues regarding Battery Service

• Fix for issue #55

0.3.0 (2019-03-18)

• Fix for issue #53: Windows and Python 3.7 error

• Azure Pipelines used for CI

0.2.4 (2018-11-30)

• Fix for issue #52: Timing issue getting characteristics

• Additional fix for issue #51.

• Bugfix for string method for BLEDevice.

0.2.3 (2018-11-28)

• Fix for issue #51: dpkg-query not found on all Linux systems

0.2.2 (2018-11-08)

• Made it compliant with Python 3.5 by removing f-strings

0.2.1 (2018-06-28)

• Improved logging on .NET discover method

• Some type annotation fixes in .NET code

0.2.0 (2018-04-26)

• Project added to Github

• First version on PyPI.

• Working Linux (BlueZ DBus API) backend.

• Working Windows (UWP Bluetooth API) backend.

0.1.0 (2017-10-23)

• Bleak created.