vatthaphon / bleconsole

Bluetooth Low Energy device console app

BLEConsole

Windows command-line tool for interacting with Bluetooth LE devices

Install via ClickOnce

Requirements:

Windows 10, BT 4.0 adapter

Console commands:

• help, ? : show help information

• quit, q : quit from application

• list, ls [w] : show available BLE devices

• open or <#> : connect to BLE device

• timeout : show/change connection timeout, default value is 3 sec

• delay : pause execution for a certain number of milliseconds

• close : disconnect from currently connected device

• stat, st : shows current BLE device status

• print, p <text&vars>* : prints text and variables to stdout, where are variables are:

  • %id : BlueTooth device ID
  • %addr : device BT address
  • %mac : device MAC address
  • %name : device BlueTooth name
  • %stat : device connection status
  • %NOW, %now, %HH, %hh, %mm, %ss, %D, %d, %T, %t, %z : date/time variables

• format [data_format], fmt : show/change display format, can be ASCII/UTF8/Dec/Hex/Bin

• set <service_name> or <#> : set current service (for read/write operations)

• read, r ** : read value from specific characteristic

• write, w ** : write value to specific characteristic

• subs ** : subscribe to value change for specific characteristic

• unsubs ** [all] : unsubscribe from value change for specific characteristic or unsubs all for all

• wait : wait seconds for notification event on value change (you must be subscribed, see above)

• foreach [device_mask] : starts devices enumerating loop

• endfor : end foreach loop
  

• if : start conditional block dependent on function returning w/o error

  • elif : another conditionals block
  • else : if condition == false block

• endif : end conditional block

  * you can also use standard C language string formating characters like \t, \n etc.

  ** could be "service/characteristic", or just a char name or # (for selected service)

Example of usage:

Lookup, connect and print all BLE devices names

BLEConsole.exe < cmd.txt, where is cmd.txt is a simple text file with content:

foreach 
	if open $
		read #0/#0
		close
	endif
endfor