DEPRECATED: This project is no longer maintained

BLE_Rpi_Peripheral

Allows a Raspberry Pi to be used as a Bluetooth Low Energy Peripheral

THE EASY WAY:

Download the pre-defined SD card image and deploy. This feature is under construction

THE SLIGHTLY LESS EASY WAY:

Installation and download

# sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qbalsdon/BLE_Rpi_Peripheral/main/scripts/setup.sh | sh

To install the service to run on every boot

# sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qbalsdon/BLE_Rpi_Peripheral/main/scripts/installService.sh | sh

THE HARD WAY:

Pre-Requisites:

All you need to do is make sure the Pi is up to date, with NPM (NODE needs to be version 8.9.0 - I have had problems with 10+) installed. You do not need any pre-requisites from older Pi builds that did not include Bluetooth. Please do not manually install any of these:

bluetooth
bluez
libbluetooth-dev
libudev-dev

These are older pre-requisites from bleno that cause issues when connecting with Android devices.

Then you can checkout this repo and run 'npm install'

DEPRECATED

After installing NPM, you will need to update /usr/include/nodejs/deps/v8/include/v8.h from:

  enum WriteOptions {
    NO_OPTIONS = 0,
    HINT_MANY_WRITES_EXPECTED = 1,
    NO_NULL_TERMINATION = 2,
    PRESERVE_ASCII_NULL = 4,
  };

  enum WriteOptions {
    NO_OPTIONS = 0,
    HINT_MANY_WRITES_EXPECTED = 1,
    NO_NULL_TERMINATION = 2,
    PRESERVE_ASCII_NULL = 4,
    REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8 = 0
  };