Thingy52 Snap

This snap contains the bluepy package as well as a helper utility script to find Thingy52 BLE devices.

Install from the store

The snap is published in the snap store at snapcraft.io/thingy52. To install, make sure snapd is installed and run:

$ snap install thingy52

After installing you will need to connect the bluetooth-control interface:

$ snap connect thingy52:bluetooth-control

Install + build from source

Building with snapcraft

To build, install snapcraft and multipass:

$ snap install snapcraft --classic
$ snap install multipass --classic --beta

Then build the snap with snapcraft:

$ git clone https://github.com/anonymouse64/thingy52-snap.git
$ cd thingy52-snap
$ snapcraft

Installing the snap file

After building the snap, install the *.snap file with:

$ snap install --dangerous thingy52*.snap

The snap plugs bluetooth-control in order to talk with the BLE devices. This interface is not auto-connected, so after installation you must connect this interface manually with:

$ snap connect thingy52:bluetooth-control

Using the snap

The main command is thingy52 which is the same as the thingy52.py script shipped with bluepy:

$ sudo thingy52 --help
usage: thingy52 [-h] [-n COUNT] [-t T] [--temperature] [--pressure]
                [--humidity] [--gas] [--color] [--keypress] [--tap]
                [--orientation] [--quaternion] [--stepcnt] [--rawdata]
                [--euler] [--rotation] [--heading] [--gravity] [--battery]
                [--speaker] [--microphone]
                mac_address

positional arguments:
  mac_address    MAC address of BLE peripheral

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -n COUNT       Number of times to loop data
  -t T           time between polling
  --temperature
  --pressure
  --humidity
  --gas
  --color
  --keypress
  --tap
  --orientation
  --quaternion
  --stepcnt
  --rawdata
  --euler
  --rotation
  --heading
  --gravity
  --battery
  --speaker
  --microphone

If you don't know the MAC address of your Thingy52 you can use the find command, optionally specifying how long to scan for with the --scantime option and the name of the device to search for with --name. See:

$ sudo thingy52.find --name MyThingy
c2:fe:6a:0f:91:16

Examples

Play a sound on the Thingy:

sudo thingy52 c2:fe:6a:0f:91:16 --speaker