A Python3 interface to Bluetooth LE on Linux.
Project description
bluepy3
This is a Python3 library to allow communication with Bluetooth Low Energy devices on Linux.
Requirements
The code needs an executable bluepy3-helper
to be compiled from C source. This is done
automatically if you use the recommended pip installation method (see below). Otherwise,
you can rebuild it using the Makefile in the bluepy3
directory.
On Raspberry Pi (debian flavours like: dietpi; raspbian) additional APT packages are required and can be installed with:
sudo apt-get install libbluetooth-dev
If you want to rebuild uuids.json
then Python3 modules requests
and lxml
need to be installed.
python3 -m pip install requests lxml
Then rebuild uuid.json
thus:
cd src/bluepy3
make uuid.json
Installation
To install the current released version, on most Debian-based systems:
sudo apt-get install python3-pip libglib2.0-dev
python3 -m pip install bluepy3
If this fails you should install from source.
sudo apt-get install git build-essential libglib2.0-dev libbluetooth-dev
git clone https://github.com/Mausy5043/bluepy3.git
cd bluepy3
...tbd...
It is recommended having command-line tools from BlueZ available for debugging. There are instructions for building BlueZ on the Raspberry Pi at http://www.elinux.org/RPi_Bluetooth_LE.
Documentation
Documentation can be built from the sources in the docs/ directory using Sphinx.
License
See LICENSE
Acknowledgements
This work builds on previous work by Ian Harvey and uses code by the BleuZ project (not a https site) and the more up-to-date BleuZ on GitHub
Original source code and documentation can be found at:
https://github.com/IanHarvey/bluepy
http://ianharvey.github.io/bluepy-doc/
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