Can termux access phone's bluetooth adapter?

[ghost]

I recently started using termux and I can't seem to find a way to access my phone's bluetooth adapter. Is it even possible?

[fornwall]

A command could perhaps be added to the Termux:API add-on app.

Do you have an idea of how it would look like? Perhaps something like

termux-bluetooth-scan

to find out addresses, and

termux-bluetooth-connect <address>

to connect to a device, communicating over stdout&stdin?

[ghost]

I don't think it would it be possible to use third party tools with that approach though.
Maybe native access like wifi?

[Martmists-GH]

Having a library that supports Bluetooth headers would be a great idea in my opinion, as e.g. pybluez needs bluetooth/bluetooth.h, and I'm using quite a lot of projects that depend on pybluez.

[wayofthefuture]

Is it a complex problem to add the ability to stream data from a Bluetooth device? Does Termux not have access to this device after installing? Just trying to understand the problem and possible solutions. Thanks.

[wayofthefuture]

I am able to see the serial port devices under the root drive "/dev/tty...", does this mean I can read data from these ports from the Termux shell or running app? We have NodeJS installed on Termux. Thanks.

[tomtom]

Would it be possible to have a command to switch bluetooth on and off again? I personally don't need to be able to configure bluetooth from the command line.

[Grimler91]

@tomtom what's the purpose of switching it on and off?

[tomtom]

Basic use case: have bluetooth turned off by default but turn it on when starting termux -- and maybe turn it off again when quitting termux.

[Grimler91]

@tomtom that makes sense.

I might be possible already today to turn on/off bluetooth using am, but would require root unless some permissions are added to the app I think. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37259260/android-enable-disable-bluetooth-via-command-line

[junfengzh]

A command could perhaps be added to the Termux:API add-on app.

Do you have an idea of how it would look like? Perhaps something like

termux-bluetooth-scan

to find out addresses, and

termux-bluetooth-connect <address>

to connect to a device, communicating over stdout&stdin?

I like this idea. What is needed to implement?

[blackprojects]

Maybe anybody can take code from https://github.com/StevenSalazarM/Termux-api-bluetooth and integrate? I try this package, but always has error - "unused DT entry: type 0xXX arg"

[RodrigoTomeES]

Hi,

There is any update about this feature?

Thanks!

[bruhMomentFixer]

hello there, im trying to write a c program that uses <bluetooth/bluetooth.h>, <bluetooth/hci.h> and <bluetooth/hci_lib.h> includes (in Termux). I somehow managed to install the blueZ library straight from google git source files and now I am able to compile without errors my c program. The function hci_get_route(NULL); returns negative value which means there is no local bluetooth device. When I execute sudo hcitool dev it shows no device. Is the fact that the c function is not finding a bt device linked in some way to the fact that the command is not showing devices? And if it is like that, what can I do to fix it?

(PD: srry in advance if this is not the correct conversation to post this request)

[Munchax10]

I made a pull request for this, please merge it.