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A simple Python interface to Bluez
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How to Setup an Eddystone URL Beacon on the RasPi 3 #178

Closed jonathanrjpereira closed 6 years ago

jonathanrjpereira commented 6 years ago

How do I set up the library & install it on my Raspberry Pi 3 & what are the prerequisites? I simply want to broadcast a single URL. Is it compatible with Python 2.7?

ukBaz commented 6 years ago

To install the Bluezero library, then my recommendation is just to go with getting it from PyPI (if you do not want to clone from GitHub):

sudo pip3 install bluezero

As the readme says you will need to put Bluetooth daemon in experimental mode for the Eddystone Beacon. This is a one time setup that can be done with:

sudo sed -i '/^ExecStart.*bluetoothd\s*$/ s/$/ --experimental/' /lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service

If you have an up-to-date version of Raspbian then you should be good to go

The library is not restricting itself to be Python 2.7 compatible. Things like the Eddystone scanner are only possible in a very recent version of Python. I haven't tested the beacon code with Python 2.7. Is there a compelling reason for needing Python 2.7?

ukBaz commented 6 years ago

@jonathanrjpereira , there is no activity on this for a week so I am closing. If there is still an issue then please re-open