Any more application details? about bluepy

[IanHarvey]

Hi,

So, the bluepy project was originally conceived to connect a TI SensorTag to a Raspberry Pi. If you're completely new to BLE it might be worth playing with a SensorTag first just to get a feel for it, they're roughly the same cost as things like the Tile but much more interesting. You don't need a Pi particularly, it should work on Linux on PCs as well.

For setting up bluepy, there are brief instructions in the README.md file, and fuller instructions at http://www.elinux.org/RPi_Bluetooth_LE . This should let you establish a basic connection to your device.

At the minute, the only code examples for using the bluepy API are the __main__ code in btle.py itself, and sensortag.py. If you'd like more on the programming concepts involved, I wrote some stuff at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy#Software_model which might help. I've nearly finished some Sphinx documentation on bluepy, which I'll hopefully be publishing soon.

Hope that helps, have fun,

Ian

[mcsarge]

Please include samples on sending data to a device and then getting a response, I can not seem to find any example where you send data to a device...

[gitcandies]

Hi Ian:

Thanks for the useful feedback...does your setup/installation also install the latest edition (or late enough) of gatttool...I'm under the impression (perhaps wrong), that this will only be created using the --enable-client parameter

I managed to connect to my BLE device (at least generate a handle), after finding I needed to use -random parameter with lecc (I came across this tip in some posting). However, I can't find any information on what this random parameter sets/controls...where are all of the optional parameters described?

It's hard to use them if you don't know what is available!

best regards,

Norm

From: Ian Harvey [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 3:45 AM
To: IanHarvey/bluepy
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Subject: Re: [bluepy] Any more application details? (#21)

Hi,

So, the bluepy project was originally conceived to connect a TI SensorTag to a Raspberry Pi. If you're completely new to BLE it might be worth playing with a SensorTag first just to get a feel for it, they're roughly the same cost as things like the Tile but much more interesting. You don't need a Pi particularly, it should work on Linux on PCs as well.

For setting up bluepy, there are brief instructions in the README.md file, and fuller instructions at http://www.elinux.org/RPi_Bluetooth_LE . This should let you establish a basic connection to your device.

At the minute, the only code examples for using the bluepy API are the main code in btle.py itself, and sensortag.py. If you'd like more on the programming concepts involved, I wrote some stuff at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy#Software_model which might help. I've nearly finished some Sphinx documentation on bluepy, which I'll hopefully be publishing soon.

Hope that helps, have fun,

Ian

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