bluepy3 0.0.10

A Python3 interface to Bluetooth LE on Linux.

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/