Failed to build PyBluez

[chaoscreater]

I'm not a programmer and know nothing about Python. Could someone please take a look at this message and let me know what I'm missing? I'm using Python 3.7.2 and I ran pip3 install bluetooth_battery and I got this message:

Successfully built bluetooth-battery
Failed to build PyBluez
DEPRECATION: Could not build wheels for PyBluez which do not use PEP 517. pip will fall back to legacy 'setup.py install' for these. pip 21.0 will remove support for this functionality. A possible replacement is to fix the wheel build issue reported above. You can find discussion regarding this at https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8368.
Installing collected packages: PyBluez, bluetooth-battery
    Running setup.py install for PyBluez ... error
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[TheWeirdDev]

Please provide the full error message

[chaoscreater]

OK, after a bit of Google and some trial and errors, I've managed to fix this by doing this:

git clone https://github.com/pybluez/pybluez
cd pybluez
python setup.py install

I've also had to download VC++ 14.0 and download the VCBuild (which installs about 4GBs worth of data). None of this is included in the requirements...

I've managed to install by doing this:

pip3 install bluetooth_battery

But now I'm getting a new error message and this is the full error message:

Installing collected packages: bluetooth-battery
Successfully installed bluetooth-battery-1.1.0
PS C:\Users\Ricky\pybluez> bluetooth_battery [cc:98:8b:56:8c:ad]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\users\ricky\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "c:\users\ricky\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Users\Ricky\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Scripts\bluetooth_battery.exe\__main__.py", line 4, in <module>
  File "c:\users\ricky\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\bluetooth_battery\bluetooth_battery.py", line 12, in <module>
    import bluetooth
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 668, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 638, in _load_backward_compatible
  File "c:\users\ricky\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\pybluez-0.30-py3.7-win32.egg\bluetooth\__init__.py", line 33, in <module>
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 983, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 668, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 638, in _load_backward_compatible
  File "c:\users\ricky\appdata\local\programs\python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\pybluez-0.30-py3.7-win32.egg\bluetooth\msbt.py", line 4, in <module>
AttributeError: module 'bluetooth._msbt' has no attribute 'initwinsock'

[TheWeirdDev]

Rerun the script without the brackets around mac address.

I didn't know you need to install VC++ since this project only aims to support GNU/Linux systems as Windows already has this feature integrated in its Bluetooth settings.

For the error message you got, this might help: pybluez/pybluez#180 (comment)

[chaoscreater]

Thanks, got it working now. Issue was that I included the brackets for the MAC address. Can close this now.

[benshep]

@chaoscreater - is it possible to share your compiled PyBluez for Windows?

[chaoscreater]

@chaoscreater - is it possible to share your compiled PyBluez for Windows?

I simply installed it as per the instructions in this Github project. I think I ran into a few errors and had to Google them. But whatever that gets installed in the background, they go into the Python installation folder and then into the subfolders. I don't even know which subfolders the files go into.

I'm not familiar with Python at all, so I don't even know how to share this with you.