bluetooth-clocks 0.2.0

Description:

bluetoothclocks 0.2.0

Bluetooth Clocks

Set and get the time on various Bluetooth Low Energy clocks

This project offers a way to easily recognize Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) clocks from
their advertisements and has a device-independent API to set and get the time on them.


Supported devices
Bluetooth Clocks supports the following devices:


Device
Set time
Set 12/24h format
Read time



Current Time Service
(e.g. PineTime with
InfiniTime firmware)
Yes
No
Yes

PVVX firmware
(LYWSD03MMC, MHO-C401,
CGG1, CGDK2, MJWSD05MMC,
MHO-C122)
Yes
No
Yes

Qingping BT Clock Lite
Yes
No
No

ThermoPro TP358/TP393
Yes
Yes
No

Xiaomi LYWSD02
Yes
No
Yes





Installation
You can install bluetooth-clocks as a package from PyPI with pip:
pip install bluetooth-clocks


Usage of the command-line program
If you have installed the package with pip, you can run the program as bluetooth-clocks:
$ bluetooth-clocks -h
usage: bluetooth-clocks [-h] [--version] [-v] [-vv] {discover,get,set} ...

Bluetooth Clocks

options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--version show program's version number and exit
-v, --verbose set loglevel to INFO
-vv, --very-verbose set loglevel to DEBUG

Subcommands:
{discover,get,set}
discover discover supported Bluetooth clocks
get get the time from a Bluetooth clock
set set the time of a Bluetooth clock

Discovering Bluetooth clocks
You can discover supported Bluetooth clocks with bluetooth-clocks discover:
$ bluetooth-clocks discover
Scanning for supported clocks...
Found a ThermoPro TP358: address BC:C7:DA:6A:52:C6, name TP358 (52C6)
Found a Xiaomi LYWSD02: address E7:2E:00:B1:38:96, name LYWSD02
Found a ThermoPro TP393: address 10:76:36:14:2A:3D, name TP393 (2A3D)
Found a Qingping BT Clock Lite: address 58:2D:34:54:2D:2C, name Qingping BT Clock Lite
Found a Current Time Service: address EB:76:55:B9:56:18, name F15
These are the options that the discover subcommand recognizes:
$ bluetooth-clocks discover -h
usage: bluetooth-clocks discover [-h] [-s SCAN_DURATION]

options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s SCAN_DURATION, --scan-duration SCAN_DURATION
scan duration (default: 5 seconds)


Setting the time
Set the time of a clock with a given Bluetooth address:
$ bluetooth-clocks set -a E7:2E:00:B1:38:96
Scanning for device E7:2E:00:B1:38:96...
Writing time to device...
Synchronized time
If you want to regularly synchronize the time on the device, you can run this command as a service, e.g. with a systemd service or in a cron job in Linux.
These are the options that the set subcommand recognizes:
$ bluetooth-clocks set -h
usage: bluetooth-clocks set [-h] -a ADDRESS [-s SCAN_DURATION] [-t TIME] [-p]

options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-a ADDRESS, --address ADDRESS
Bluetooth address (e.g. 12:34:56:78:9A:BC)
-s SCAN_DURATION, --scan-duration SCAN_DURATION
scan duration (default: 5 seconds)
-t TIME, --time TIME the time to set, in ISO 8601 format (e.g. 2023-01-10T16:20,
default: current time)
-p, --am-pm use AM/PM format (default: 24-hour format)

Warning
Don’t be a jerk by changing the time of other people’s clocks. Use this tool responsibly.



Getting the time
Get the time from a clock with a given Bluetooth address:
$ bluetooth-clocks get -a E7:2E:00:B1:38:96
Scanning for device E7:2E:00:B1:38:96...
Reading time from device...
2023-01-14T17:54:17
These are the options that the get subcommand recognizes:
$ bluetooth-clocks get -h
usage: bluetooth-clocks get [-h] -a ADDRESS [-s SCAN_DURATION]

options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-a ADDRESS, --address ADDRESS
Bluetooth address (e.g. 12:34:56:78:9A:BC)
-s SCAN_DURATION, --scan-duration SCAN_DURATION
scan duration (default: 5 seconds)



Usage of the library
The functionality of the command-line program can also be used in your own Python programs by using this project as a library.
See the module reference for complete API documentation.


Documentation
Read the online documentation of Bluetooth Clocks.


Learn more about Bluetooth Low Energy development
If you want to learn more about Bluetooth Low Energy development, read the book Develop your own Bluetooth Low Energy Applications for Raspberry Pi, ESP32 and nRF52 with Python, Arduino and Zephyr and the accompanying GitHub repository koenvervloesem/bluetooth-low-energy-applications.


License
This project is provided by Koen Vervloesem as open source software with the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more information.