To get data from a Bluetooth device and send it to an MQTT broker on your Raspberry Pi running Raspbian OS Lite, you will need to follow these general steps:
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Install the necessary Bluetooth software on your Raspberry Pi. You can do this by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install bluez ```
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Pair your Bluetooth device with your Raspberry Pi. You can do this either by using the Bluetooth GUI or by running the following command in the terminal:
bluetoothctl
This will open the Bluetooth control panel. You can then use the
scan on
command to scan for nearby devices and thepair <device-id>
command to pair with your Bluetooth device. -
Install the necessary MQTT software on your Raspberry Pi. You can do this by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install mosquitto mosquitto-clients
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Write a Python script that reads data from the Bluetooth device and publishes it to the MQTT broker. You can use the
bluepy
library to communicate with the Bluetooth device and thepaho-mqtt
library to publish data to the MQTT broker. Here's an example Python script:import bluepy.btle as btle import paho.mqtt.publish as publish # Set the MAC address of your Bluetooth device MAC_ADDRESS = '00:11:22:33:44:55' # Set the topic to publish data to on the MQTT broker MQTT_TOPIC = 'bluetooth/data' # Set the hostname and port number of the MQTT broker MQTT_HOST = 'localhost' MQTT_PORT = 1883 # Define a callback function to handle incoming Bluetooth data def handle_data(handle, value): # Convert the data to a string data = value.decode('utf-8') # Publish the data to the MQTT broker publish.single(MQTT_TOPIC, data, hostname=MQTT_HOST, port=MQTT_PORT) # Connect to the Bluetooth device and enable notifications for the data characteristic device = btle.Peripheral(MAC_ADDRESS) data_service = device.getServiceByUUID('0000fff0-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb') data_characteristic = data_service.getCharacteristics('0000fff1-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb')[0] data_characteristic_handle = data_characteristic.getHandle() device.writeCharacteristic(data_characteristic_handle+1, b'\x01\x00') # Set up a notification handler for incoming data device.withDelegate(btle.DefaultDelegate(handle_data)) # Start the main loop to receive Bluetooth data and publish it to the MQTT broker while True: device.waitForNotifications() ``` This script connects to the Bluetooth device with the specified MAC address, enables notifications for the data characteristic, and sets up a callback function to handle incoming data. The callback function converts the data to a string and publishes it to the MQTT broker. The script then enters a loop to wait for incoming Bluetooth data and publish it to the MQTT broker.
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Run the Python script in the terminal using the following command:
python bluetooth-mqtt.py
This will start the script and begin reading data from the Bluetooth device and publishing it to the MQTT broker. You can then subscribe to the MQTT topic
bluetooth/data
to receive the data from the Bluetooth device.