NameError: name 'BluetoothSocket' is not defined

[syrj2112]

For some reason when trying to replicate your code, I run across this error at the of the code.
File "test2.py", line 122, in
server_sock=BluetoothSocket( RFCOMM )
NameError: name 'BluetoothSocket' is not defined
Can you enlighten me on why this is occuring when trying to run this code.

[brendan-myers]

BluetoothSocket is part of the bluetooth package that's imported at the start of the script.

It'll make it easier to help if you could answer a few questions;

• Have you installed the blutooth package? (sudo apt-get install python-bluez) You can check with pip freeze)
• Which version of python are you using? (python --version)
• Have you changed anything in the code? You've copied the code into a new file (test2.py), and the line number is different than what's in the repo (122 instead of 124, although, my whitespacing is a bit messy in that script!)

[syrj2112]

When I run the command pip freeze, I get the following list:
Flask==0.10.1
Jinja2==2.7.3
MarkupSafe==0.23
Pillow==2.6.1
PyBluez==0.18 <----------------------------------------------------------- Is this the correct package?
RPi.GPIO==0.6.3
RTIMULib==7.2.1
Werkzeug==0.9.6
argparse==1.2.1
blinker==1.3
chardet==2.3.0
colorama==0.3.2
gpiozero==1.3.1
html5lib==0.999
itsdangerous==0.24
lxkeymap==0.1
mcpi==0.1.1
ndg-httpsclient==0.3.2
numpy==1.8.2
pbkdf2==1.3
picamera==1.12
picraft==1.0
pifacecommon==4.2.1
pifacedigitalio==3.1.0
pigpio==1.35
pyOpenSSL==0.13.1
pyasn1==0.1.7
pygame==1.9.2a0
pygobject==3.14.0
pyinotify==0.9.4
pyserial==2.6
python-apt==0.9.3.12
requests==2.4.3
rpi-ws281x==1.0.0
sense-emu==1.0
sense-hat==2.2.0
six==1.8.0
smbus==1.1
spidev==3.0
twython==3.1.2
urllib3==1.9.1
wheel==0.24.0
wifi==0.3.8
wsgiref==0.1.2

I'm not sure if included all the other packages is necessary but maybe there are packages that are cancelling each other out or something.

The version of python I am current using is Python 2.7.9

I got the error just from copying and pasting the code into python, script but I have made a couple different files and made some modifications to see if they would fix it but no luck.

[brendan-myers]

That's the version I have installed. Hmmm.

2 things to try next;

1. Run through all the steps in the readme again, to double check that everything is installed/setup properly.
2. Open a python shell, import bluetooth, and double check that the bluez package is definitely being imported.

>>> import bluetooth
>>> bluetooth
<module 'bluetooth' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/bluetooth/__init__.pyc'>

Also, are you running Raspian, and if so, which version?

[syrj2112]

For some strange reason, i simply made a copy of my sample rfcomm-server.py file and implemented the wifi code into that and everything works just fine now. I'm not sure what was causing the error but it is working now like a charm! Thumbs up for the awesome code. Quick question, is there any way to modify the code to check if a config being sent is already stored?

[brendan-myers]

Weird. Did you have to reinstall the bluez package?

is there any way to modify the code to check if a config being sent is already stored?
You could implement it a number of different ways. I'm not sure why you'd want to though, as the app sends both the ssid and psk.

I don't think we've solved the problem, but as you're not having the problem anymore. I'll close the issue.