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PyBTSteward

A tool to report telemetry and more from bluetooth devices. Currently it reports telemetry data to statsd. But there are many future plans in store.

This tool started life as a python script for scanning and advertising urls over Eddystone-URL.

I needed a tool to be able to use a Raspberry Pi 3 pull telemetry data from bluetooth devices, and this seemed like a phenomenal starting point.

I subsequently found Patrick Van Oosterwijck's py-decode-beacon which also did a lot of what I wanted, but not all.

I'd like to thank these authors, as well as the authors and contributors to the myriad opensource projects I'm standing on the shoulders of to make this tool. It is not my intent to take credit for any of their work. Merely to adapt and continue to share.

I've also recompiled the Bluez packages for Raspbian Jessie to utilize the latest available version. I've shared them on artifactory.

You can find that repository here

Requirements

• Python 3.x (Scanning will not work on Python 2.x)
• Bluez
  • sudo apt-get install bluez bluez-hcidump

Installation

• Via Chef
• One-Off

Configuration

• Most of the configuration is outlined

Upgrade

sudo pip install PyBTSteward --upgrade

Usage

PyBTSteward [-s] [-t] [-o] [-v] [-V]

optional arguments:
	-h, --help            show this help message and exit
	-u [URL], --url [URL] URL to advertise.
	-s, --scan            Scan for URLs.
	-t, --terminate       Stop advertising URL.
	-o, --one             Scan one URL only.
	-v, --version         Version of PyBTSteward.
	-V, --Verbose         Print lots of debug output.