Description: Information and notification of new discovered bluetooth devices
Copyright: 2009-2022 Fabio Castelli muflone@muflone.com
License: GPL-3+
Source code: https://github.com/muflone/bluewho
Documentation: https://www.muflone.com/bluewho
Translations: https://www.transifex.com/muflone/bluewho/
The scan will automatically detect any visible device and for each one that was detected a notification will be shown.
Each device found will be saved on the list with its name, type, address and last seen date and time.
- Python >= 3.6 (developed and tested for Python 3.9 and 3.10)
- XDG library for Python 3 ( https://pypi.org/project/pyxdg/ )
- GTK+ 3.0 libraries for Python 3
- Notify 0.7 library for Python 3
- GObject libraries for Python 3 ( https://pypi.org/project/PyGObject/ )
- BlueZero library for Python 3 ( https://pypi.org/project/bluezero/ )
- dbus-python library for Python 3 ( https://pypi.org/project/dbus-python/ )
For the audio notification one of the following audio player is required:
- canberra-gtk-play
- aplay
- paplay
- mplayer
The application will scan the system and it will use the first player found.
A distutils installation script is available to install from the sources.
To install in your system please use:
cd /path/to/folder
python3 setup.py install
To install the files in another path instead of the standard /usr prefix use:
cd /path/to/folder
python3 setup.py install --root NEW_PATH
If the application is not installed please use:
cd /path/to/folder
python3 bluewho.py
If the application was installed simply use the bluewho command.