btleplug

Rust Cross-Platform Host-Side Bluetooth LE Access Library

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Rust Cross-Platform Host-Side Bluetooth LE Access Library

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I've always been annoyed at the cross-platform story for Bluetooth. GATT is one of my favorite protocols because it is so simple, but writing simple code against this simple…

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qdot76367·Nov 13, 2021

One of the worst/best parts of buttplug is that I ended up needed to maintain my own Bluetooth LE library: btleplug (https://github.com/deviceplug/btleplug). Worst because working with bluetooth is always THE WORST, best because of the submissions and community that've grown around it. There's 2 types of PRs to btleplug: - People going "here's a PR but uh, why is the library named btleplWAIT WHAT" - People going "here is a PR specifically to fix something in Buttplug thank you"

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conradev·Mar 31, 2021Recommendation phrase

I've always been annoyed at the cross-platform story for Bluetooth. GATT is one of my favorite protocols because it is so simple, but writing simple code against this simple protocol is _not_ portable: iOS and macOS have CoreBluetooth, Linux has BlueZ, Windows has Windows.Devices.Bluetooth and Android has android.bluetooth. I've seen a few projects trying to fix this, like https://github.com/deviceplug/btleplug, and I hope one of them becomes production ready.

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