Hello Travis, On 18 December 2015 at 17:22, Gowtham Anandha Babu <gowbabuar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Travis, > > On 18 December 2015 at 21:51, Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I’m working with a small Linux ARM SBC (similar to a Raspberry Pi), trying to set it up as a BLE peripheral. >> I’m running Debian Jessie, and build 5.36 of the bluez stack. I'm trying to do a similar thing with a Raspberry Pi. Although right now I'm making more progress with the RPi in the central role rather than a peripheral. >> I *think* I’ve discerned that there may be 3 different ways I could do this? >> 1) Just use the hcitool/hciconfig command line tools. >> 2) There’s a C library. So write a C program that cross compiles for the ARM, including the ARM headers for the bluez stuff. >> 3) There’s a dbus interface. I appear to have dbus running on my device. I'm currently exploring your option number 3 using Python as I want to take advantage to the numerous Python libraries for RPi peripherals. > I am not that much familiar with embedded. But I tried below things in Ubuntu. > There are few python scripts in bluez git tree which is using DBus interface. > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/test/example-gatt-server > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/test/example-advertisement > > 1) Run bluetoothd with experimental flag enabled (# sudo ./src/bluetoothd -ndE). > 2) Run the above mentioned script. > 3) # ./test/example-gatt-server -- it exposes 3 services. > 4) # ./test/example-advertisement -- it will advertise a sample data. > 5) Finally you can capture these via your phone app. > > You can edit those python scripts to meet your needs. > > This is very basic information. Let others comment on this. I would agree with Gowtham that this is a good approach or at least the one I'm following. DBus and GObject are new to me and I found the following stackoverflow article helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33428804/role-of-mainloops-event-loops-in-dbus-service The goal of my experiments is to get an open source library so school children can easily code things like: https://youtu.be/1ZvFdX5bA8k so if you do get something that you can share I'd be interested. Another idea you might want to explore is using the CLI client, bluetoothctl. There are a few bits about it around and I've done a short video of my experiments: https://youtu.be/fEx2V5y-Egk I hope some of that helps. Regards, Barry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
