Bluedesk

THIS PROJECT IS NOT MAINTAINED ANYMORE SINCE THERE IS A NEW REWRITE IN BASED OF NODE.JS, CHECKOUT THE REPOSITORY: DESKBLUEZ

Connects to a low energy actuator system via bluetooth and allows remote control via command line or internal managed interface.

Supported and Tested Desks

• Linak Desk 8721 (Module) / IKEA IDÅSEN

Other devices may also work.

Requirements

Prepare bluepy system dependencies:

The code needs an executable bluepy-helper to be compiled from C source. This is done automatically if you use the recommended pip installation method (see below). Otherwise, you can rebuild it using the Makefile in the bluepy directory.

To install the current released version, on most Debian-based systems:

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip libglib2.0-dev

On Fedora do:

$ sudo dnf install python-pip glib2-devel

For Python 3, you may need to use pip3:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip libglib2.0-dev

Installation

sudo pip install bluedesk

To use the command without sudo run this command:

sudo setcap 'cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip' /usr/local/lib/(python3.7 OR your version)/dist-packages/bluepy/bluepy-helper

where python3.7 is relative to your current used version.

CLI Usage

HELP

$ bluedesk -h

usage: bluedesk [-h] {connect} ...

Controls lower energy actuator systems (office desks) via bluetooth.

positional arguments:
{connect}

optional arguments:
-h, --help  show this help message and exit

Connect

$ bluedesk connect

Scanning ...
[?] Choice device: Desk 8721 [e4:d1:a7:xx:xx:xx]
> Desk 8721 [e4:d1:a7:xx:xx:xx]
None [02:c3:85:xx:xx:xx]

Device: e4:d1:a7:xx:xx:xx connected successfully.

Note: After the desk is connected, the CLI tool should provide additional actions:

usage: bluedesk [-h] {connect,disconnect,up,down,move} ...

Controls lower energy actuator systems (office desks) via bluetooth.

positional arguments:
{connect,disconnect,up,down,move}

optional arguments:
-h, --help            show this help message and exit

Move up and down

$ bluedesk up

OR

$ bluedesk down

Move to a specific position

$ bluedesk move --to 50

This command will move the desk to the 50% height