BT-Manager

A library for managing bluetooth devices using Python, Bluez and DBus.

Installation

Installing the RTP/SBC codec (this must be done first):

sudo make -C codecs install

Note: the default platform is x86 (mmx). To build for a different platform e.g., armv6 then run sudo make -C codecs install PLATFORM=armv6 instead.

Install the python library by running:

pip install BT-Manager

Documentation

Documentation is hosted at https://pythonhosted.org/BT-Manager

Project resources

• Source code
• Issue tracker
• Download development snapshot

Changelog

v0.3.0

Bug fix for issue #1 causing erroneous signal receiver notifications.

v0.2.0

Added support for:

• BTInput (org.bluez.Input)

v0.1.0

Initial release supporting Bluez 4.x dbus API with following interfaces:

• BTManager (org.bluez.Manager)
• BTAdapter (org.bluez.Adapter)
• BTDevice (org.bluez.Device)
• BTMedia (org.bluez.Media)
• BTMediaTransport (org.bluez.MediaTransport)
• BTAudioSource (org.bluez.AudioSource)
• BTAudioSink (org.bluez.AudioSink)

Services:

• BTAgent (org.bluez.Agent)
• SBCAudioSink (org.bluez.MediaEndpoint): endpoint/transport for connecting A2DP SBC source
• SBCAudioSource (org.bluez.MediaEndpoint): endpoint/transport for connecting A2DP SBC sink

Other:

• UUID decoding for identifying supported services
• Class of device decoding to device service, major and minor classes
• Device vendors codes and names for device vendor decoding
• Audio codec types and SBC codec configuration attributes