bluedo 0.34

Bluetooth proximity automation

Overview

BlueDo - Bluetooth proximity automation

Lock your desktop, mute music or run any other command when leaving your PC. There are dozens of apps like this. This one just aims to make it beautiful, modern and easy.

Maturity

Beta

Requirements

sudo apt install python-gi-dev python3-pip python3-dev libgirepository1.0-dev gcc libcairo2-dev pkg-config gir1.2-gtk-3.0 playerctl pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user

Use these system commands:

• bluetoothctl
• amixer
• loginctl
• playerctl

Only tested on Ubuntu 20.04 with GNOME.

Command line options

• -e / --enable to start service on app start.
• -m / --minimize to start minimized

Screenshots

System changes

Note that this app will make these changes to your power management:

• Enable screen lock: org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-enabled true
• Set delay from screen blacking to locking to zero: org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-delay 0
• Set screen saver timeout to 10 seconds when device is away, 5 minutes when device is present: org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay 600

TODO

• Check for dependencies on startup
• Check for bluetooth, disable controls if missing
• Stop device scanning when minimized
• Minimize to systray
• Unit tests

Development docs

• scan for devices: bluetoothctl devices

• rssi for device: hcitool rssi ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (unstable)

• hard locking: lock when no signal

• soft locking: set screensaver timeout to 1 minute when no signal

Inspiration

• https://github.com/LukeSkywalker92/btproxipy
  • bt_rssi.py is from this project and is MIT licensed.
• https://discourse.gnome.org/t/useful-documentation-for-gtk/29