My main realization was that Bluetooth LE is mostly different from "normal" ("basic rate", BR) Bluetooth.

Normal Bluetooth is mostly exposed to the OS as a socket/serial connection, with all the protocol around it, and you can mostly use any of the serial TTY modules like SerialPort.

Bluetooth LE puts a lot more work on the "master", by doing away with the "connection" model and expects the main machine to poll/poke addresses on the BLE device instead to transfer data.

In my investigations, I did not find readymade Perl modules, but in theory using DBus directly to talk to Bluetooth could work (if your OS uses DBus).

BLE terminology, topology

BLE primer

In reply to Re: Bluetooth LE? by Corion
in thread Bluetooth LE? by cavac

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