BlueWho

Description: Information and notification of new discovered bluetooth devices

Copyright: 2009-2022 Fabio Castelli (Muflone) muflone@muflone.com

License: GPL-3+

Source code: https://github.com/muflone/bluewho/

Documentation: http://www.muflone.com/bluewho/

Translations: https://explore.transifex.com/muflone/bluewho/

Description

The scan will automatically detect any visible device and for each one that was detected a notification will be shown.

Each device found will be saved on the list with its name, type, address and last seen date and time.

System Requirements

• Python >= 3.6 (developed and tested for Python 3.9 and 3.10)
• XDG library for Python 3 ( https://pypi.org/project/pyxdg/ )
• GTK+ 3.0 libraries for Python 3
• Notify 0.7 library for Python 3
• GObject libraries for Python 3 ( https://pypi.org/project/PyGObject/ )
• BlueZero library for Python 3 ( https://pypi.org/project/bluezero/ )
• dbus-python library for Python 3 ( https://pypi.org/project/dbus-python/ )

For the audio notification one of the following audio player is required:

• canberra-gtk-play
• aplay
• paplay
• mplayer

The application will scan the system and it will use the first player found.

Installation

A distutils installation script is available to install from the sources.

To install in your system please use:

cd /path/to/folder
python3 setup.py install

To install the files in another path instead of the standard /usr prefix use:

cd /path/to/folder
python3 setup.py install --root NEW_PATH

Usage

If the application is not installed please use:

cd /path/to/folder
python3 bluewho.py

If the application was installed simply use the bluewho command.