#pygatt - Python Module for Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Profile (GATT).

This Module allows reading and writing to GATT descriptors on devices such as fitness trackers, sensors, and anything implementing standard GATT Descriptor behavior.

pygatt provides a Pythonic API by wrapping two different backends:

• BlueZ's gatttool command-line utility.
• Bluegiga's BGLib for the BLED112.

##Motivation

gatttool has an interactive mode but it is difficult to use programatically. Ideally we could use BlueZ directly, but that's a much bigger task.

gatttool is not cross platform so using the BLED112 backend allows for a cross platform solution.

Dependencies

• Currently the gatttool backend is currently only tested under Linux as it requires gatttool which is included with BlueZ which is a Linux library.
• BlueZ >= 5.5
  • Tested on 5.18 and 5.21
  • Ubuntu is stuck on BlueZ 4.x and does not work - you need to build BlueZ from source.
• The BLED112 backend should work on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.

Installation

With BLED112 backend:

• Install via pip: $ pip install pygatt

With BLED112 backend + GATTTOOL backend:

• Install via pip: $ pip install pygatt[GATTTOOL]

##Author Steven Sloboda [email protected] https://github.com/sloboste

Derived from the work of several others, see NOTICE.

##License Apache License, Version 2.0 and MIT License. See LICENSE.

##Copyright Copyright 2015 Stratos Inc.

##Source https://github.com/stratosinc/pygatt