DEPRECATED

Microbot is no longer around as a company and I am not using any of their hardware anymore.

Open Source Microbot Push Server

Docker Image

A 3rd-party implementation of Microbot Push service.

This project is planned to contain three separate elements:

• python library to interact with Microbot Push devices via BLE
• daemon that handles most of the BLE-related chores (e.g. device discovery/pairing/etc)
• simple web interface to interact with the daemon

You can find a dump of my current understanding of the Microbot's low-level Bluetooth API here

Running

Bgapi

$ cd "${PY_PUSH_CHECKOUT_DIR}"
$ pip install -r ./requirements/prod.txt
$ ./bin/serve.sh --ble_driver bluegiga --ble_device /dev/tty.usbmodem1 web_ui

PyBlueZ

$ sudo -i
# cd "${PY_PUSH_CHECKOUT_DIR}"
# pip install -r ./requirements/prod.txt
# pip install -r ./requirements/bluez.txt
# ./bin/serve.sh --ble_driver pybluez --ble_device hci0  web_ui

Microbot Push Library

At the moment, the library supports two BLE stacks:

• Bluegiga: available for all platforms that support USB COM devices, does not require root access, does require purchase of a $15 piece of hardware
• PyBlueZ (custom fork): Linux-only, requires elevation to root to run. The implementation is more of proof-of-concept, BLE operations are somewhat unstable (causing I/O delays). Don't forget to deploy PyBlueZ requirements for this mode.

Microbot Push Library Documentation

Web UI

Changelog

29 May 2017

Code:

• Fixed missing createMicrobotFromUUID method in the PyBlueZ stack (kudos to @javaftper)

Docker container:

• Now has embedded PyBlueZ support
• Updated to the latest revision of code