blepy

Python bindings for Bluegiga BLED112 Bluetooth Low Energy USB Dongle.

This project generates python api bindings for the Bluegiga BLED112 by parsing the bleapi XML specification file. The user is required to have the Bluegiga Bluetooth Smart SDK (available from http://techforum.bluegiga.com/BLED112). This project is in no way associated with Bluegiga.

Caveats

This is a work in progress and probably won't "just work". It has been tested so far on Mac OS X and Raspberry Pi. Sending variable length messages is currently not implemented properly.

Api Generation

1. Install python prerequisites; numpy and ctypes (possibly already available on your system)
2. Run api_gen.py <XML file> where <XML file> is the file "bleapi.xml" found in the "api" folder of the Bluegiga SDK. This will generate "ble.py"

3. Compile the uart module (which is imported into "ble.py" by ctypes). This requires the "uart.c" and "uart.h" files from SDK/src/thermometer-demo

   gcc -o uart.so uart.c -shared

4. Copy the "uart.so" file to the same location as "ble.py"

Usage

Take a look at "demo.py" to get an idea of how to use the library