bluepy3 0.0.21

Python module for interfacing with BLE devices through Bluez

# bluepy3

[](https://pypi.org/project/bluepy3) [](https://pypi.org/project/bluepy3) [](https://pypistats.org/packages/bluepy3) [](https://github.com/psf/black)

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: `(bash) sudo apt-get install libbluetooth-dev `

If you want to rebuild uuids.json then Python3 modules requests and lxml need to be installed. `(python3) python3 -m pip install requests lxml ` Then rebuild uuid.json thus: `(bash) cd src/bluepy3 make uuid.json `

## Installation

To install the current released version, on most Debian-based systems: `(bash) sudo apt-get install python3-pip libglib2.0-dev python3 -m pip install bluepy3 `

If this fails you should install from source. `bash 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](LICENSE)

## Acknowledgements

This work builds on previous work by [Ian Harvey](https://github.com/IanHarvey/bluepy) and uses code by the [BleuZ project](http://www.bluez.org/) (not a https site) and the more up-to-date [BleuZ on GitHub](https://github.com/bluez/bluez)

Original source code and documentation can be found at:

https://github.com/IanHarvey/bluepy http://ianharvey.github.io/bluepy-doc/