ble - Bluetooth LE plugin

Listens to Bluetooth Low Energy advertisements to determine which devices are in range.

requirements

Only tested on a Raspberry PI with an external Bluetooth LE USB dongle and the Bluez bluetooth stack.

Requires the bleServer, see ../../../helpers.

Stores raw data (mac-address, last time seen) data for all devices in sensors/ble, and current availability by name for specific “known” devices (programmable via plugindata/bleDevices) into environment/devices.

schema

• sensors/ble: Stores per-device entries exactly as they are read from bleServer.
• environment/devices: Stores availability of known devices.
• status/devices/ble: Device status updated on every action.
• plugindata/bleDevices/bleDevice: Maps hardware address to name, for known devices (which will be stored in environment/devices:
  • id: Mac address (string, 6 colon-separated hex bytes).
  • name: User-visible name.

actions

Two actions:

• Pull data from bleServer into sensors/ble every 60 seconds.
• Update environment/devices for known BLE devices.