Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: bluepy3
Version: 0.3.0
Summary: Python module for interfacing with BLE devices through Bluez
Home-page: https://github.com/Mausy5043/bluepy3
Download-URL: https://github.com/Mausy5043/bluepy3
Author: mausy5043
Keywords: Bluetooth,Bluetooth Smart,BLE,Bluetooth Low Energy,Raspberry Pi
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
Classifier: Topic :: Home Automation
Requires-Python: >=3.7
License-File: LICENSE

# bluepy3

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This is a Python3 library to allow communication with Bluetooth Low Energy devices on Linux.

Note: If you are reading this on [PyPi](https://pypi.org/project/bluepy3/) then note that the formatting below looks terrible. 
Visit the project's homepage to read the correctly formatted [README.md](https://github.com/Mausy5043/bluepy3#readme) file. 

## Requirements

Please be aware that this is not a beginners or n00bs tool. Some experience with Linux CLI, Python3 and BT/BLE is expected.

The package requires Python 3 v3.7 or higher to be installed. 

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
```

To rebuild `uuids.json` the Python3 modules `bs4`, `requests` and `lxml` need to be installed.
```(python3)
python3 -m pip install bs4 lxml requests
```
Then find where bluepy3 is installed and rebuild `uuids.json` thus: 
```(bash)
cd some_path_name/site-packages/bluepy3/
make uuids.json
```

## Installation

To install the current released version, on most Debian-based systems:
```(bash)
sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libbluetooth-dev
python3 -m pip install --upgrade bluepy3
sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+ep bluepy3-helper
```
Then test the installation using
```(bash)
blescan -n
```
This should list all (compatible) Bluetooth device in range.

It may be considered to have 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.

## Troubleshooting

Make sure the user is part of the `bluetooth` group.   
Use `hciconfig` to confirm that the device actually exists. This should output something like:
```
hci0:    Type: Primary  Bus: UART
BD Address: B8:27:EB:90:4F:F5  ACL MTU: 1021:8  SCO MTU: 64:1
UP RUNNING
RX bytes:15332515 acl:452626 sco:0 events:333729 errors:0
TX bytes:7376962 acl:438075 sco:0 commands:72113 errors:0
```
Use `hciconfig [hci0] up` to activate the BT device if the above returns an error.

## 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/

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023 Maurice (mausy5043) Hendrix

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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