Blendr is a terminal UI app for browsing BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) devices. It allows you to inspect, search, connect, and analyze data coming from BLE devices directly from your terminal.
It was designed for day-to-day use by BLE engineers so the core features are useful search, direct connection to any characteristic and device with one command, and displaying your custom services names in the UI. Learn more
And it's just perfect to hack your neighbor's toothbrush 😉
Installation
Cargo cli
cargo install blendr
For Unix OS you can run the following, it will install the binary for your system and provide man reference.
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sLSf "https://github.com/dmtrKovalenko/blendr/blob/main/install.sh?raw=true" | sh
For windows, it is required to download and run binary executable directly. Open latest release page and download binary executable for your OS
Prerequisits
MacOS
To use Bluetooth on MacOS Big Sur (11) or later, you need to either package your binary into an application bundle with an Info.plist including NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription, or (for a command-line application such as the examples included with btleplug) enable the Bluetooth permission for your terminal. You can do the latter by going to System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Privacy → Bluetooth, clicking the '+' button, and selecting 'Terminal' (or iTerm or whichever terminal application you use).
Usage
Get the help information with either man blendr or blendr --help it will print all the available options and characteristics. To get started and learn about the biggest features watch this 2 minutes demo:
License
This project is licensed under the terms of BSD-3-Clause license