Playing around with pybluez
We received our new laptops this week. Since they support Bluetooth (just as about any laptop these days), I decided to experiment a bit with detecting nearby Bluetooth devices. A while ago I discovered PyBluez, an easy-to-use Python Bluetooth library by MIT PhD student Albert Huang. The nice thing about it is that it works both on GNU/Linux and Windows.
One of the samples is the script inquiry.py which allowed me to detect nearby devices in just a few lines of code. Here it detected mine and Petr’s cell phones:
Tags: bluetooth, programming, python
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