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Bluetooth support

Open Mallets opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

zenoh should be able to operate natively over Bluetooth.

Mallets avatar Apr 02 '21 16:04 Mallets

It might be a nice start targeting 6LoWPAN

teburd avatar May 12 '21 12:05 teburd

A little heads-up on this. We have been looking into adding Bluetooth support to zenoh and which Bluetooth library are around, especially those targeting async.

However, at this stage it seems that most of the libraries out there target the Client part of Bluetooth: i.e. how to connect to a device/peripheral. What is still missing is the possibility to advertise themselves as Peripheral in order to be discovered by others and initiate a Bluetooth connection first and a zenoh session next.

There are same libraries the provide bindings for bluez and DBus, but those are quite low level and would work only on Linux (mainly Desktop-like). So, it would not be very portable and still it would require substantial work on the Bluetooth part itself, rather than the integration in zenoh (which should be quite easy once the an async binding is available).

Mallets avatar May 12 '21 12:05 Mallets