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Cam

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From: Brisbane, Aus

Registered: 2004-12-21

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bluetooth console

This is a far cry from Archlinux-specific but I've been playing with Bluetooth lately and I made this up as a sort of testing ground. I've seen a few articles around about setting up BT on Arch for a few different uses and figured some people might get some use out of this.

It's a very primitive console, run it with the address of a device and it'll connect and basically let you push instructions through a socket to the device and then it displays the response. I use it to test AT commands and see what the phone says back so I can parse it etc...

It depends on pybluez, there is convenientally a pkgbuild for that in AUR

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys, time
import bluetooth as bt

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print "usage: console.py <btaddr>"
    sys.exit(0)

def _send(sock, string):
    sock.send("%sr" % string)
    rs = ''
    while True:
        try:
            data = sock.recv(1024)
            if data.strip() == 'OK':
                break
            else:
                rs += data
        except bt.BluetoothError, e:
            print "error receiving: %s" % str(e)
            break
        
        return rs.strip()

sock = bt.BluetoothSocket( bt.RFCOMM )
port = bt.get_available_port( bt.RFCOMM )
sock.connect((sys.argv[1], port))
device = bt.lookup_name(sys.argv[1])

print "connected to %s... /quit to exit" % device

while True:
    data = raw_input('>>> ')
    
    if data.strip() == '/quit':
        print "disconnecting from %s... have a nice day!" % device
        sock.close()
        sys.exit(0)
        
    rs = _send(sock, data.strip())
    print rs

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