Introduction

Helper class to work with the Adafruit Bluefruit LE SPI Friend.

Dependencies

This driver depends on:

Please ensure all dependencies are available on the CircuitPython filesystem. This is easily achieved by downloading the Adafruit library and driver bundle.

Installing from PyPI

On supported GNU/Linux systems like the Raspberry Pi, you can install the driver locally from PyPI. To install for current user:

pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-bluefruitspi

To install system-wide (this may be required in some cases):

sudo pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-bluefruitspi

To install in a virtual environment in your current project:

mkdir project-name && cd project-name
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip3 install adafruit-circuitpython-bluefruitspi

Usage Example

# A simple echo test for the Feather M0 Bluefruit
# Sets the name, then echo's all RX'd data with a reversed packet
import time
import busio
import board
from digitalio import DigitalInOut
from adafruit_bluefruitspi import BluefruitSPI
spi_bus = busio.SPI(board.SCK, MOSI=board.MOSI, MISO=board.MISO)
cs = DigitalInOut(board.D8)
irq = DigitalInOut(board.D7)
rst = DigitalInOut(board.D4)
bluefruit = BluefruitSPI(spi_bus, cs, irq, rst, debug=False)
# Initialize the device and perform a factory reset
print("Initializing the Bluefruit LE SPI Friend module")
bluefruit.init()
bluefruit.command_check_OK(b'AT+FACTORYRESET', delay=1)
# Print the response to 'ATI' (info request) as a string
print(str(bluefruit.command_check_OK(b'ATI'), 'utf-8'))
# Change advertised name
bluefruit.command_check_OK(b'AT+GAPDEVNAME=BlinkaBLE')
while True:
    print("Waiting for a connection to Bluefruit LE Connect ...")
    # Wait for a connection ...
    dotcount = 0
    while not bluefruit.connected:
        print(".", end="")
        dotcount = (dotcount + 1) % 80
        if dotcount == 79:
            print("")
        time.sleep(0.5)
    # Once connected, check for incoming BLE UART data
    print("\n *Connected!*")
    connection_timestamp = time.monotonic()
    while True:
        # Check our connection status every 3 seconds
        if time.monotonic() - connection_timestamp > 3:
            connection_timestamp = time.monotonic()
            if not bluefruit.connected:
                break
        # OK we're still connected, see if we have any data waiting
        resp = bluefruit.uart_rx()
        if not resp:
            continue  # nothin'
        print("Read %d bytes: %s" % (len(resp), resp))
        # Now write it!
        print("Writing reverse...")
        send = []
        for i in range(len(resp), 0, -1):
            send.append(resp[i-1])
        print(bytes(send))
        bluefruit.uart_tx(bytes(send))
    print("Connection lost.")

Documentation

API documentation for this library can be found on Read the Docs.

For information on building library documentation, please check out this guide.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Code of Conduct before contributing to help this project stay welcoming.