BLEConsole

Windows command-line tool for interacting with Bluetooth LE devices

Install via ClickOnce

Requirements:

Windows 10, BT 4.0 adapter

Console commands:

• help, ? : show help information

• quit, q : quit from application

• list, ls [w] : show available BLE devices

• open or <#> : connect to BLE device

• timeout : show/change connection timeout, default value is 3 sec

• delay : pause execution for a certain number of milliseconds

• close : disconnect from currently connected device

• stat, st : shows current BLE device status

• print, p <text&vars>* : prints text and variables to stdout, where are variables are:

  • %id : BlueTooth device ID
  • %addr : device BT address
  • %mac : device MAC address
  • %name : device BlueTooth name
  • %stat : device connection status
  • %NOW, %now, %HH, %hh, %mm, %ss, %D, %d, %T, %t, %z : date/time variables

• format [data_format], fmt : show/change display format, can be ASCII/UTF8/Dec/Hex/Bin

• set <service_name> or <#> : set current service (for read/write operations)

• read, r ** : read value from specific characteristic

• write, w ** : write value to specific characteristic

• subs ** : subscribe to value change for specific characteristic

• unsubs ** [all] : unsubscribe from value change for specific characteristic or unsubs all for all

• wait : wait seconds for notification event on value change (you must be subscribed, see above)

• foreach [device_mask] : starts devices enumerating loop

• endfor : end foreach loop
  

• if : start conditional block dependent on function returning w/o error

  • elif : another conditionals block
  • else : if condition == false block

• endif : end conditional block

  * you can also use standard C language string formating characters like \t, \n etc.

  ** could be "service/characteristic", or just a char name or # (for selected service)

Example of usage:

Lookup, connect and print all BLE devices names

BLEConsole.exe < cmd.txt, where is cmd.txt is a simple text file with content:

foreach 
	if open $
		read #0/#0
		close
	endif
endfor

Below is an example of interactive use of the BLEConsole:

You can use BT name or # provided by list command. For example, run BLEConsole, type ls and it should list available BT devices, like

BLE: ls
#00: F2
#01: TOZO-S2

Than use command open #1 or open TOZO-S2 (you can also use partial name, like TOZ if no more BLE devices with tat name exist), you'll get an output like

BLE: open #1
Connecting to TOZO-S2.
Found 3 services:
#00: GenericAccess
#01: GenericAttribute
#02: 2800

Now you can set active service and list characteristics, by issuing command set #0

BLE: set #0
Selected service GenericAccess.
#00: DeviceName RW
#01: Appearance R
#02: PeripheralPreferredConnectionParameters    R
#03: 10918      R

Now you can read characteristic by # or name, like read #0

BLE: read #0
TOZO-S2

If you already knew your service name/#, you can avoid previous step and read characteristic after successful connection to BLE device, like read #1/#0