Bluetooth for All!

The aim of this project is to support devices for which the OS either does not provide a Bluetooth Stack or the available stack is severely limited (e.g., on the iPhone).

It provides a portable Bluetooth Stack that runs as a user-space daemon and will support different Bluetooth HCI transport layers (e.g., HCI H4 UART and H5 the "Tree-Wire" protocol), different inter-process communication methods, and support multiple applications in parallel.

It is not a port of an existing Bluetooth Stack. However, best practices from the Bluetooth Stack used in the BTnode Project at ETH Zurich and others are incorporated.

Look in at the Wiki pages for an Architecture overview and a little GettingStarted example.

For a first overview, have a look at this BTstack presentation at the Google Open Source Jam in Zurich with a focus on the iPhone where I've presented the iPhone WiiMote OpenGL demo.

News

2012-02-05: Bluetooth Low Energy GATT Profile/ATT Protocol added to BTstack code base. See BLE
2011-11-05: Early support for Bluetooth Low Energy in BTstack running on MSP430F5438/CC2564 talking to iPhone 4S
2011-10-28: BTstack used on IOIO (PIC & USB) also mentioned on hack-a-day
2011-09-17: Embedded examples for MSP-EXP430F5438+CC256x development board, see MSP430GettingStarted
2011-07-18: iWallet hack using an Arduino with a SPP module
2011-04-23: BTstack on TI MSP430-F5438 video
2011-04-06: BTstack used in Art projects:

2011-03-24: Celeste: Bluetooth file sharing for iOS, at last. released
2010-12-10: WeBe++ Bluetooth HID Mouse and Keyboard released
2010-10-31: BTstack Keyboard on ATV2
2010-08-08: BTstack on Stellaris Cortex-M3 ARM video
2010-05-11: BTstack GPS released and featured on TUAW
2010-01-24: BTstack for iPod Touch 1st Generation with external Bluetooth featured on TUAW
2010-01-08: BTstack supports iPhone 2G
2010-01-05: iPhone-Mouse-Laser Keyboard integration featured on TUAW, engadget and The BigMoney
2010-01-03: Happy New Year with iPhone, Laser Keyboard and Magic Mouse
2009-12-27: BTstack Keyboard Tutorials in TUAW and iClarified
2009-12-24: BTstack Keyboard in TUAW, the Wall Street Journal Blog, and engadget
2009-12-21: iPhone BTstack Keyboard v1.0 released in Cydia Store! Demo version at BigBoss
2009-11-30: mame4iphone with WiiMote support by ZodTTD
2009-11-28: BTstack used for Robot Control
2009-11-08: BTstack version 0.1 released for iPhone/iPod touch, see Status, on TUAW
2009-11-08: Updated iPhone WiiMote demo (Part 2)
2009-08-13: BTstack presentation at the Google Open Source Jam in Zurich slides
2009-08-05: YouTube iPhone WiiMote demo video featured on:

2009-02-13: iPhone Bluetooth proof-of-concept featured on ars technica