chrvadala/node-ble

Windows and Mac support?

ajmas opened this issue · 7 comments

ajmas commented

Does this library support Mac and Windows, in addition to Linux?

If it does, are there any different setup instructions?

chrvadala commented

No, it doesn't support Mac or Windows, because they aren't compatible with bluez and dbus.

martmalo commented

Does it still not support macOS?

ianchanning commented

Could you add in the instructions that bluez and dbus is a requirement?

gmacario commented

Could you add in the instructions that bluez and dbus is a requirement?

It's here: https://github.com/chrvadala/node-ble/blob/main/README.md?plain=1#L105

If you have a better wording to suggest please create a Pull Request

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ianchanning commented

@gmacario I'm working on a PR now. The compatibility section doesn't mention which apt packages you need. I never setup node-ble from scratch, so I'm not sure which ones are required. I know that bluez is required, but what else?

gmacario commented

@gmacario I'm working on a PR now. That doesn't mention which apt packages that you need. I never setup node-ble from scratch, so I'm not sure which ones are required. I know that bluez is required, but what else?

Not quite sure, anyway if it could help here is an excerpt of a Dockerfile where I use node-ble

...
FROM node:16-slim AS runner

# install bluez related packages
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
    bluetooth \
    dbus \
    sudo

RUN apt-get install -y \
    bluez \
    libbluetooth-dev \
    libudev-dev 

RUN apt-get clean

COPY ./bluezuser.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
RUN useradd -m bluezuser -s /bin/bash \
 && usermod -aG bluetooth bluezuser \
 && passwd -d bluezuser
...
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ianchanning commented

@gmacario could you answer the question in #68 (comment) - are all those apt installs required? Did you try removing them?