Support for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) / GATT

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It would be great to have wrappers for the Bluetooth Low Energy features added 
in the recent version(s) of BlueZ, to allow for the following features to be 
controlled from a python application:

 * discovery of BLE devices and their GATT services
 * reading and writing of BLE attributes/values
 * creation and management of GATT services

I am interested in contributing, but not sufficiently experienced with the 
pybluez source code to create sensible abstractions for the low-level functions.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by aprsdr...@googlemail.com on 18 Jun 2014 at 1:38

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Any contribution will be more then wellcome
But I see no easier way  then get familiar with source code.

Maybe You could try to first implement "discovery of BLE devices and their GATT 
services"

As a starting point You could look at discover_devices function in 
https://code.google.com/p/pybluez/source/browse/trunk/bluetooth/bluez.py
it uses _bt.hci_inquiry which is implemented in 
https://code.google.com/p/pybluez/source/browse/trunk/bluez/btmodule.c#1973

Original comment by karu...@wp.pl on 23 Jun 2014 at 1:53

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There is also Ian Harvey's project
https://github.com/IanHarvey/bluepy
It wraps bluez 5.4, python sources are in public domain

As of windows support:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/65c9cf4e-e225-4fc3-8c2c-66cd2401d3
ed/how-to-establish-a-connection-from-windows-8-pc-to-a-bluetooth-low-energy-dev
ice

"The Windows 8 Bluetooth GATT apis requires that the device be paired using the 
built-in UI and does not allow application to connect to an arbitrary Bluetooth 
LE device."
So I am not sure how much can be implemented there

Original comment by karu...@wp.pl on 13 Aug 2014 at 10:59