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.

THE SLIGHTLY LESS EASY WAY:

1. Open up a terminal
2. cd ~
3. sudo mkdir repo
4. cd repo
5. git clone https://github.com/qbalsdon/BLE_Rpi_Peripheral.git
6. cd BLE_Rpi_Peripheral
7. sudo ./scripts/setup.sh

THE HARD WAY:

Pre-Requisites:

All you need to do is make sure the Pi is up to date, with NPM 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.

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,
  };

to

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

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