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tiktaalik-dev / blueproximity

Desktop application to lock/unlock your screen automatically based on detecting how close it's to another Bluetooth device (e.g. your mobile phone).
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Kind: Feature. Support BLE or work with smart watch \ fitness tracker ? #7

Open AlexGluck opened 3 years ago

AlexGluck commented 3 years ago

I try amazfit bip and xiaomi mi band (1,2,3) in all cases i can't select this devices for lock screen. May be that can help for add support fit trackers.

P.S. May be i can help with rpm and russian translation (later).

tiktaalik-dev commented 3 years ago

Hi @AlexGluck,

Thanks for reaching out :-)

Someone had mentioned similar problems with Bluetooth Low Energy devices but as I don't own any such device I wasn't aware that such issue existed and how to solve it yet. Sorry about that! Thanks so much for that link to a possible solution! I skimmed through the code and it seems to be relatively simple to implement, provided that library is already compatible with Python 3 (haven't checked it up yet). Would you be willing to test the new code base when I have it, please? Also, thanks for offering to help with rpm packages! That would be amazing! About the translation, that would be much appreciated as well. The original language files were not available in the old code but I managed to extract them from the binary files a while ago, so once I push the files to the repository will let you know to ask for your assistance.

Cheers, Rigo

AlexGluck commented 3 years ago

Yep, of course i have "xiaomi mi band 3" and "amazfit bip". Translation will be easy, but for packaging need time.

oangelo commented 3 years ago

@tiktaalik-dev, to the best of my knowledge, any smartphone can work as a Bluetooth Low Energy device. Support BLE would be a very nice feature indeed.

pbludov commented 3 years ago

This fork has BLE support: https://github.com/filug/blueproximity