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undera / pylgbst

Python library for LEGO® PoweredUp devices
MIT License
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Bluetooth dongle limitations #101

Open ekaggrat opened 3 years ago

ekaggrat commented 3 years ago

why is the current version limited to the dongle mentioned? Have you tried any of the modern bluetooth built in modules in the recent laptops?

thanks

undera commented 3 years ago

The limitation comes from the lack of Python BLE libraries on Windows. On Linux/Mac it works with many different BLE adapters.

Today, there is a chance that new Bleak library would work with variety of dongles. Feel free to try it yourself.

ekaggrat commented 3 years ago

thanks for your reply. I will try it on 3 machines to see which works.. So on a linux/mac machine any dongle would work or is there a bare minimum version needed?

undera commented 3 years ago

Sorry, I don't know that. I did not test all the possible dongles. I just know that for multiple people it did work.