i want to play either a sound, which is saved on my raspberry pi as a MP3 file or send a song from my phone over bluetooth to my Pi. So i found out, that if i run a song over bluetooth and play one from a saved MP3 file, the audio output gets disturbed and isn't able to handle both sources. My idea is, to only turn bluetooth on, if i am sure, that no sound is played from a saved MP3 file. My question: how can i turn on and off bluetooth over my Python script? I want to integrate these commands in my main programm. thanks
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- Is this what you're looking for: Turning Bluetooth on and off using PythonSanders– Sanders2022-01-07 23:42:45 +00:00Commented Jan 7, 2022 at 23:42
- 1@Sanders the answer you have linked to is for Windows machines. For RPi the commands are different.ukBaz– ukBaz2022-01-08 07:55:09 +00:00Commented Jan 8, 2022 at 7:55
- @ukBaz Thank you for catching that.Sanders– Sanders2022-01-08 20:33:53 +00:00Commented Jan 8, 2022 at 20:33
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The Bluetooth stack on Linux is BlueZ and they make a series of APIs available using D-Bus to interface with the Bluetooth hardware.
The documentation for the various API's is available at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/doc
If you have not used D-Bus before it can be a little bit of a learning curve. There are libraries like pydbus that try to make it more Pythonic.
The command line tool busctl can be useful to experiment with how D-Bus works with BlueZ. For example busctl tree org.bluez will show a tree of the BlueZ objects. /org/bluez/hci0 is normally the built in Bluetooth adapter on a Raspberry Pi.
The API for the Bluetooth Adapter has a Powered property that you can use to turn the power on and off.
An example of what a script might look like to toggle the power would be:
import pydbus # DBus object paths BLUEZ_SERVICE = 'org.bluez' ADAPTER_PATH = '/org/bluez/hci0' # setup dbus bus = pydbus.SystemBus() adapter = bus.get(BLUEZ_SERVICE, ADAPTER_PATH) # toggle power of adapter if adapter.Powered: adapter.Powered = False else: adapter.Powered = True In a separate terminal have bluetoothctl running and it will report if the script has successfully changed the power.
