Support for Mac OS X (10.9, 10.10)

[vielmetti]

bluepy and bluepy-helper depend on Linux's bluez.

It would be a useful thing to have an abstraction layer that let you write the same python code for both Mac OS X and Linux, along the lines of what noble does for node.js.

Tracking any specific issues here.

[hansmbakker]

https://bitbucket.org/OscarAcena/pygattlib does this, you can have a look at how they integrated the OSX part and the abstraction layer there. I would also say that bluepy could improve upon this point - being cross platform would be a major advantage.

[mritchie712]

@Wind-rider are you syaing pygattlib supports OSX? When I try to install it on OSX I get:

OSError: Not supported OS

Full error:

$ sudo pip install gattlib
Collecting gattlib
  Downloading gattlib-0.20150805.tar.gz (1.7MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 1.7MB 205kB/s 
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 20, in <module>
      File "/private/tmp/pip-build-_Atfhk/gattlib/setup.py", line 48, in <module>
        raise OSError("Not supported OS")
    OSError: Not supported OS

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/tmp/pip-build-_Atfhk/gattlib

[hansmbakker]

@mritchie712 I'm sorry, I must have confused it.

However here https://github.com/matthewelse/bleep/ says to have experimental OSX support besides Linux support, with two backends as shown in https://github.com/matthewelse/bleep/blob/master/bleep/backend.py.

This could be an example for bluepy?

[mritchie712]

@Wind-rider that looks promising, thanks!

[bretcj7]

@mritchie712 did you get past the issue? I'm battling the same right now.

[mritchie712]

No, I ended up using ionic (JavaScript framework) instead

[IanHarvey]

Realistically, Mac OS support isn't going to be added to Bluepy any time soon.

Interested parties might want to look at https://github.com/TheCellule/python-bleson, which supports Mac OS but is still somewhat under development.

[watsonix]

Bummer but thanks for letting us know