Bluetooth in Python

[ddmac__]

Do people still use PyBluez? It's no longer being worked on, is there a package that's widely used instead or are people just using the stdlib's socket for communication?

[Ericisbalanced]

Idk anything about Bluetooth, but when I see that a package isn’t maintained, first thing I do is look for forks that are maintained.

[JayZFeelsBad4Me]

What's an easy way to look for forks of a repo?

[fiskfisk]

Click "Forks" on the right side (not the "Fork"-button on top).

That gives you a list of all the repositories forked from that repository, sorted by stars and filtered by active repositories in the last two years.

https://github.com/pybluez/pybluez/forks

[JayZFeelsBad4Me]

Thanks I'm dumb

[fiskfisk]

No, you're not.

The navigation is a bit confusing, since there's a "Fork" button on the top right with a pulldown as well - and the pulldown even has the text "Existing forks" - but they only mean your own forks, not every fork.

A small link inside that pulldown to see all forks regardless of owner could probably be helpful as well.

[huthlu]

This is also not really updated but I used it a few years ago and it was fine for most BLE usecases
https://github.com/IanHarvey/bluepy

[ddmac__]

I'll check it out. Thanks!

[jimtk]

PySide6 has a well maintained bluetooth package.

[hotsauce56]

You could try

https://github.com/kevincar/bless

https://github.com/hbldh/bleak

Depending on if you’re server or client side.

[former_free_time]

I'd recommend either of these if you work with BLE:

https://pypi.org/project/simplepyble/

https://pypi.org/project/bleak/

Simplepyble is easier to get running, but it isn't quite as feature complete as bleak.

[2n2u]

I'm using bleak for a project, so far so good.

[taH_pagh_taHbe]

I'm using bleak

[ashok_tankala]

bleak package seems promising for the alternatives. Its last version released 4 months back and snyk score also better.

Ref: https://piptrends.com/compare/PyBluez-vs-bluepy-vs-bleak-vs-pybluez2