Bluetility
A Bluetooth Low Energy browser, an open-source alternative to LightBlue for OS X (by jnross)
based-connect
A reverse-engineered Bose Connect imitation program for Linux. (by Denton-L)
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| 704 | 259 | |
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| 4.7 | 0.0 | |
| 11 months ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Swift | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Bluetility
Posts with mentions or reviews of Bluetility.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-04.
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Is there a way to fetch Bluetooth device info?
I'd recommend using a GUI Bluetooth explorer so you can see how your device represents its data. Here's one I found by Googling, and I can highly recommend the LightBlue app for iPhone. There, you can look for the "Battery Service" Service, 0x180F (may also appear as its UUID, 0000180f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb), and its "Battery Level" Characteristic, 0x2A19 or 00002a19-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb. Characteristics are pieces of data within services.
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Show HN: I reverse engineered the Bose iOS app and rebuilt it for Mac
I don't take quite the same bearish view on this app.
I suspect the "reverse engineering" here was just looking at Bluetooth LE GATT attributes and values, which you can just look at using something like Bluetility [1]. There appears to be some exemptions to DMCA for compatibility so long as the author didn't copy Bose' code, but IANAL. [2]
The name I think is the more challenging part because it's very close - probably a C&D if it becomes popular to change the name.
[1] https://github.com/jnross/Bluetility
[2] https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq
based-connect
Posts with mentions or reviews of based-connect.
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Show HN: I reverse engineered the Bose iOS app and rebuilt it for Mac
For those on Linux; I had great success with the “based-connect” program, which enables me to configure “known devices” (which one is primary and so on) and, crucially, configure noise cancelling.
https://github.com/Denton-L/based-connect